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From: dan%bbncd@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  Your flame about Unix philosophy...right on target.
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Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:24:32 EDT
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From:  Dan Franklin <dan@bbncd>

Multics--in particular, MIT-Multics, which was both well-documented, because it
was a product, and well supported, because our bug reports went straight to the
developers at CISL some two blocks away.  (It's probably still that way, but I
haven't been there for awhile.) It was also quite reliable, despite frequent
new releases.  It also maintained REAL compatibility; when I was there, there
was at least one program which still ran, even though it was written on
the original GE 645 hardware, running a (by now) truly ancient version of the
software, and the sources had been lost long ago.

It's too bad the hardware architecture is so archaic (though it has many
special-purpose registers, it's only a one-accumulator machine) and Honeywell
so inept about selling computers.  The only useful thing UNIX has that Multics
doesn't is pipes.

	Dan