Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Ken Thompson Recalls =?UTF-8?B?VW5peOKAmXM=?= Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins Date: 30 Oct 2025 06:25:11 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <10drbgs$2ef5e$1@dont-email.me> <10drhso$2gftl$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net gSiUQmIHN1YJCHTkvFfhXgXyKEMNed9mW/PfsjJH1mqnY6vn/f Cancel-Lock: sha1:2wQuq1bdokRGEy9lcGQzQOGwbtM= sha256:3g7mAPX7BAWwvBZoEq2y1snTubnTTa0nxKffCl3keFM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76820 On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:29:14 -0400, c186282 wrote: > I remember just a little about MULTICS ... basically > a 'high-concept' project that became a total cluster-fuck when > implementation was attempted. I was never exposed to MULTICS. I first ran into *nix on a PDP-11. I forget what it was called but it was in the era when Bell couldn't really sell Unix because of the monopoly considerations. Being Boston Unix like software had a way of falling off the back of a truck. > Nothing really wrong with modern UNIX implementations, but Linux IS > easier all-around. AIX wasn't bad. Its problem was it ran on RS6000 systems. They weren't bad either as long as you had deep pockets. Our source tree compiled on either with a few flags for AIX or Linux. The biggest problem was the db_Vista geodata had to have its ends swapped.