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Essay Galaxy - Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System
Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System
In the late 1960s a combined project between researchers at MIT, Bell Labs and
General Electric led to the design of a third generation of computer operating
system known as MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service). It was
envisaged as a computer utility, a machine that would support hundreds of
simultaneous timesharing users. They envisaged one huge machine providing
computing power for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful as
their GE-645 would be sold as personal computers costing only a few thousand
dollars only 20 years later would have seemed like science fiction to them.
However MULTICS proved more difficult than imagined to implement and Bell Labs
withdrew from the project in 1969 as did General Electric, dropping out of the
computer business altogether.
One of the Bell Lab....
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