PDA

View Full Version : Grandfather of Linux


Lostincyberspace
November 14th, 2007, 04:03 AM
the grand father of Linux, MULTICS, has just been released to the public.
the link is here (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/1710224)
:popcorn:
Itll be Interesting to find out what happens now.
DoctorMO
November 14th, 2007, 04:23 AM
It sits there and is prodded at by historians?
andhar
November 14th, 2007, 04:41 AM
pretty much, its only code till someone (if at all) can write an emulator for it.
-grubby
November 14th, 2007, 04:42 AM
It sits there and is prodded at by historians?

pretty much
FuturePilot
November 14th, 2007, 04:43 AM
Itll be Interesting to find out what happens now.

I'm guessing not much

Unfortunately you can't install this on any PC, as MULTICS requires dedicated hardware, and there's no operational computer system today that could run this OS