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		kgr on May 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix and Multics (2019) This short video / simulation, explains why, IMO, Unix surpassed Multics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4

hayley-patton on May 12, 2024 [–]

But Multics was written in PL/I (and the Burroughs B5000 system in Algol before) so Unix doesn't have an advantage there.

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