Thus spake james.fogg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I hate to jump into an off-topic thread, but multics was developed
> at MIT.
Multics was a joint project (fundede by ARPA) for a "computer
utility"; roughly speaking MIT produced the OS, Bell Labs the
compilers and GE the hardware.
But it was GE and subsequently Honeywell who actually sold it as a
commercial product, which was what I mean.
> Ya gotta love the rings (Ninth and nevermost, Zero is God).
There were only 8 rings (except on the original GE-645 implementation,
in which rings were simulated by software). Rings 6 & 7 were in "outer
darkness" without even access to the system libraries.
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