Unix & Multics

[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> Unix is based on Multics, right?
Not exactly, but some of its ideas were inspired by Multics.
> Well, what did Multics have that Unix doesn't have,
Organick wrote a book about Multics; look it up.
Perhaps the three most noted were protection rings,
memory files, and dynamic linking.
> and what does Unix have that Multics didn't?
Small size (originally), good notation for using pipes,
C, troff, popularity, portability.