What was Multics?

multics is a time-sharing operating system. The system started as a joint venture project. It was jointly developed by Bell Labs, MIT, and General Electric in 1964. The purpose is to develop a set of A multi-person, multi-tasking operating system on the host.

multics is a time-sharing operating system. The system started as a joint venture project. It was jointly developed by Bell Labs, MIT, and General Electric in 1964. The purpose is to develop a set of A multi-person, multi-tasking operating system on the host.
Chinese name
Reusable Information and Computing Services
Foreign name
multics
Category
operating system
Origin time
1965
Operating system type
multics (English full name: MULTiplexed Information and Computing System) is a comprehensive, general-purpose programming system that is being developed as a research project. The original Multics system was based on the GE 645 computer. One of the overall design goals was to create a computing system that is capable of meeting almost all major requirements. These systems must run continuously and be reliable, similar to a telephone or power system. , Working 24 hours a day, and must be able to meet a wide range of service needs. The order of absent from multiple human-computer interaction users handles the use of the system with the programming language and subsystems of the dedicated system itself, and centralized batch cards,
Multics was created in 1964
One: For the first time in large software
Multics, from a business perspective, is a failed operating system. In terms of ideas, this system is a bit ahead of schedule, but advancement is not the main cause of failure. The main reason is that it has the characteristics of a company that is not a great company: seeking perfection. An inappropriate analogy is to hope that the Yangtze River will have the same size as the estuary when it exits the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In fact, the advantages of large companies' financial resources are mainly that they can have more bricklayers, not that they can recruit more geniuses, especially today when hardware is becoming less and less a constraint. [16-17]

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