Multics

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory. It has been written that Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes."

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Image: Software: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bull HN Information Systems Inc., Bull SAS, and The DPS8M Developer Team Screenshot: VulcanSphere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.