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by pjmlp 1788 days ago
Multics failed for Bell Labs, it was quite useful for others, and in a DoD security assessemnt even proved more secure than UNIX thanks to PL/I.

https://multicians.org/myths.html

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Without reading this comment's nickname I already knew it would be... you.

JK, if Multics has TCP/IP and VT100 support (or even raw serial support), IRC, Gopher, E-Mail, News, and Telnet clients could be backported perfectly for Multics.

IF there's a Z Interpreter for Tops-20 on the KA10, I think a computer capable on running Multics should be able to run Zork.

It has, ARPANET had Multics servers, https://multicians.org/mx-net.html