Multics

The name UNIX is a pun on Multics, which is the name of a major predecessor operating system.

Phrack Issue #18 (Crimson Death's Issue) 1988

By the middle of the decade, the computer utility appeared to provide the way ahead, and a consortium of General Electric, Bell Labs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) embarked on a project called Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service).

The Guardian World News Martin Campbell-Kelly 2011

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda 2009

It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used for information management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. '

OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda 2009

It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used for information management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda 2009

OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda

OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda 2009

CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda

OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIO Blast from the Past: 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 by Rodney Gedda 2009

In the process of porting the game, Ken, along with Dennis Richie and a few others, invented Multics, UNICS, Unix, the B and C programming languages, and a few other nifty things.

The Ten Most Important Game Events Ever 2007

In the process of porting the game, Ken, along with Dennis Richie and a few others, invented Multics, UNICS, Unix, the B and C programming languages, and a few other nifty things.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Multics was an extremely influential early time-sharing operating system started in 1964 and introduced a large number of new concepts, including dynamic linking and a hierarchical file system.

Finally, MULTICS Goes Open glyn moody 2007