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Reading Response Discussion
Multics
Team: Sameer, Shivjot, Ambalica, Veena
It came into being in the 1960s and it completely vanished in 2000s. It was started by Bell and MIT but Bell backed out of the project in 1969. Multics is a time sharing OS which provides Multitasking and Multiprogramming.
It provides following features: 1. Utility Computing 2. Access Control Lists 3. Single level storage 4. Dynamic linking 5. Hot swapping
It is not a Distributed OS but it a Centralized system which was written in the assembly language.