Holy shit. MULTICS LIVES!
@starbreaker Wow, that's...impressive. I haven't looked at Multics in...30+ years?
@starbreaker I actually had a job right out of school that required me to use it.
I don't remember any of it anymore.
@filkerdave @starbreaker I don't know how old are you, but you look younger than me, and started working with computers in 1999. Congratulations.
@windmills @filkerdave I started messing with them in 1996.
@windmills @starbreaker I'm in my mid-50s at this point, and actually got paid to program on punchcards at one point. (Anyone who wants to talk about "the good old days" never had to deal with that crap. It's SO MUCH BETTER now)
@filkerdave @windmills @starbreaker you look younger than mid-50s !
@windmills @starbreaker Thanks! It's all the alcohol. It acts as a preservative.
@filkerdave I did some research into how Multics works back in 2015 because the plot of the novel I was writing at the time required that the protagonist penetrate a system with an unfamiliar operating system, and she lived in a setting where Unix and its descendants were ubiquitous.