SIPB 50: See Multics Run - Stan Zanarotti

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[@matthewcroughan]

An incredible shame that there are so many interruptions. I would love to see a follow up which is more focused, with no interruptions. No matter the credentials of the interrupters, they should be ashamed that they are preventing us from learning about this treasure.

[@michaeljames8696]

I learned to never interrupt people from this

[@robl6704]

this would have been a great thing to watch if there weren't so many rude af interruptions. And if they are 'adding' anything mic 'em up. yeesh. +1 to the presenter. -10 for the peanut gallery.

[@redmartian]

Agreed .. Q&A at the end .. let Stan run through his presentation and demo uninterrupted :(

[@doon386]

I'm glad to see my dps8m simulator made it to MIT. Cool.

[@mad3m6n]

I cannot believe all those people that kept interrupting him over and over again. This would have been a priceless educational video otherwise.

[@MarquisDeSang]

This is multtithreading in a nutshell

[@lescitrons]

​@@MarquisDeSang HAHA yeah they're just timesharing! They should have been charged $0.11 for those quips!

[@kenwiebe9860]

Every once in awhile I got to see Multics; but mostly just interruptions by mumbling off-mic. What a shame.

[@eerieyellowlights]

Wow, really sucks how badly the interruptions just ruin this video. Worst part is that it doesn't seem to be students even, just old guys who worked on Multics getting their comments in during the presentation. Lame.

[@achaney]

Poor guy. He tried so hard not to lose his cool. I could not have been so generous.

[@pratyaydhond397]

This is like something we dream of but can't have! This is one hell of a way to teach, I came here for what is multics but way the prof is teaching is damn!!dope

[@DaiyuHurst]

Hey Stan, thanks a million for your Postscript code for the Multics logo. We made some nice tees with it.

[@maxdouglas2828]

If this is the current crop of students, I fear for the world.

[@synthesoul]

They are just entitled M.I.T. students.

[@fezkhanna6900]

Loot at those barbarians in the background

[@aprusek]

The peanut in the peanut gallery almost ruined this presentation. Top points to the presenter. Someone should point out to this audience the difference between a presentation and a discussion.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

16:14 Similar to command substitution in POSIX shells. Except I think less general, because they were designed to avoid spawning lots of extra processes.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

24:05 The syntax of PL/I was such that there were (almost) no reserved words. I say “almost” because they decided to have half a dozen alphabetic-only synonyms for the comparison operators (e.g. “lt” for “

[@joelneely]

I really enjoyed the video! However, I believe that there is a factual error. The speaker said that Multics was the first O/S written in a high level language, but I believe that it was preceded by the O/S of the Burroughs B5000, which was written in a dialect of ALGOL.

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Windows NT was the first “Windows”no longer dependent on DOS

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Still managed to conform to the Microsoft dictum: “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody”.

[@dr.shuppet5452]

Multics manual: "Many of the functions described here are also provided as runtime features of Multics-supported programming languages. The user is encouraged to use language-related facilities wherever possible." Stan Zanarotti at 23:43: *pretending put list("...") does not exist*

[@linverno2.0]

Interruptions are very annoying

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

27:40 Not quite. It followed the FORTRAN argument-passing convention, which was peculiar.

[@Oldcomputer]

This is unwatchable with the rude interruptions.

[@josecarloszanarotti1396]

Tem uma tradução legenda em português

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

21:54 “Mandatory Access Control”

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:19 Hey, that public SSH still works.

[@jezbon]

Seriously the idiots who keep interrupting mean 9 mins in I just can't deal with it anymore; going to stop watching. I'm so interested in Multics and have been for years but these muppets ruined what would have likely been the best demo of it on KZbin. Very sad.

[@avsbq]

could you recommend some go-to multics resources? the web seems so barren

[@heterodoxagnostic8070]

stop using macs on these confrences!

[@alicewyan]

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