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Maybe they want to compete for MCP and GECOS users. VMS is the new MULTICS killer.

MULTICs has capability based security, VMS is stuck in the world of access control lists. (But OpenVMS 7.2 runs just fine in the virtual VAX 11/780 in my smartphone)

Sorry. I was being sarcastic.

MCP's Architecture struck me as absolutely amazing and fascinating when i read about it.

Bull released a MCP VM demo development kit, I tried really hard to set it up and write some simple ALGOL for it.

If anything it thought me to appreciate how MULTICS/UNIX (and aside the pdp10 world) gave us line oriented developer-focused interactive environments that don't make ones eyes bleed.

It's no coincidence the villain in Tron is called MCP. As a former colleague who managed an A-series mainframe, MCP is actually very user-friendly. It's just that it's extremely picky about its users.

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