Multics (was Re: getcwd() and friends.)

[Barry Margolin]

At the peak (about five years ago) there were around 70 Multics
systems worldwide.  These days I think there are still at least 50.
Most of them are not in the US; the majority have been in France for a
long time, and the UK also has quite a few.  In the US there are a few
at Ford and GM, a bunch in the DoD (including a couple at the
Pentagon), a few at universities (MIT shut theirs down at the
beginning of 1988), one at the National Computer Security Center
(Multics's security features permit them to give accounts to competing
vendors without worrying too much about spying), probably at least one
at the NSA, and a few others I can't think of right now.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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