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The cumulative system design contributing to MULTICS, however, probably was a order of magnitude greater work than the implementation effort. On the shoulders of Giants may be clichèd , but it also seems increasingly as if the contemporary world has decided to deprecate inherited wisdom. Blame awful policy decisions starting under Regan..

Oh, you're right. I had in my head "A combination of MIT, Bell Labs and GE" and manually translated that to thousands but it was actually only about a hundred dedicated people.

Thanks.

It was also already built. The clone is easier to make