On their Shoulders
OS Opinion's founder Kelly McNeill, has started off a series of articles on operating systems beyond Windows, Linux and MacOS. This first one is on Multics:
"Multics -- better known as "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service" by those who used it -- is a mainframe timesharing OS that started as far back as 1965 and was put to rest after a long life in October 2000.
You may be asking why we need to know more about an OS that is no longer in use. The answer to that question is the same one that your history teacher gave you in high school when you asked, "Why do we need to know this stuff?"
For those who don't remember the answer to that question, here it is: "You'll never know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.""
Go on, be a devil and invest 60 seconds. We are after all, standing on their shoulders. If the subsequent articles are as concise and readable as this, I'll point to them too.
10:52:17 PM 
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