Few people nowadays would have heard of an operating system called Multics, but almost everyone uses operating systems whose fundamental features first appeared in Multics.
Maybe this is one of those “when I was a lad” moments (ref.
[20]), but I clearly remember the end of the movie short era. Along with mid-movie intermissions, “shorts” vanished
some time around 1980...
I'm no doomsday sayer type person at all by far but I caught this show on the history channel last night that was pretty interesting. I love ancient history - that's what drew my attention cause i wa...