Because MULTICS is the first OS to integrate security into its core functions
Because MULTICS is the first OS to integrate security into its core functions
Because MULTICS is the first OS to integrate security into its core functions
MULTICS
Multics was created in 1969.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has boot tape images for Multics converted from the magnetic tapes that came with the DOCKMASTER system. CHM also has hardware from this system.
MULTICS It was a main frame time-sharing operating system developed in the mid-1960's.
The MULTICS project was abandoned. The GE 645 system was too slow and proposals for new equipment were rejected as too expensive.
Unix is not an abbreviation. The name is a play on the Multics operating system. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) supported multiple users; Unix originally supported only one, making it essentially a single user version of Multics.
There are many Transaction Processing Systems such as IBM, Tuxedo, Univac, Digital Equipment Corporation, Honey Multics, Burroughs Corporation or Honeywell Multics.
The immediate predecessor to Unix was MULTICS.
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Unix used to be known as "Unics" which stood for "UNiplexed Information and Computing System" Now, Unix covers a vast amount of operating systems such as, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solairis. The real question is, how can something that is "Uni" or "Uniplexed" represent multiple platforms? Unix doesn't really mean any one thing in particular. Unix is a sidesplitting pun to a previous system, called "Multics" (Multiplexed Information and Computing system) The name is merely a spin off of "Multics"