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Interesting in retrospect to see the\ m justifying the use of C rather than assembly, which was the language of choice for many systems of this era.

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This is roughly the same statement t\ hat System R makes: persistent storage is the most important thing. Their approaches are of course quite different!

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Three is a magic number for versions\ . The "second system effect" \(due to Fred Brooks\) refers to the fact that second versions are often over ambitious and try to fix everything that was wrong with the first version. Multics was the second system after CTSS, which was one of the\ first time-sharing systems. Corbato won the Turing Award in part for CTSS.

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The name "Unix" makes funs\ of Multics by \(see "eunuchs" in the dictionary\).

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The idea of using your own software \ remains a valued principle in systems work; sometimes called "eating your own dog food", which makes no sense to me as a metaphor \(assuming you're not a dog\).

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Of course, this is not sufficient fo\ r modern files, so a third and fourth level of indirection were added. For a long time, and perhaps still in some versions, there was a comment on the fourth level that said "this code has not been tested!".

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This is the "eat your own dogfo\ o

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The name "Unix" makes funs\ of Multics as a combination of the words "Multics" and "eunuch".

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