Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers
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Description: Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."
(November 23, 2000)
Seattle News and Events | Multics and Mr. Rogers Because nothing in this world lives or dies alone and because the obsessive dot-com deathwatch in the news could make a person think that what's happening is the end of an era, I'd like to direct your attention to one of life's quiet little synchronicities and the end of an actual computing era, which I'm defining as any period of time longer than the dot-com gold rush, which I'm in turn defining as "I've got shoes older than that." Contemplate with me for a second the curious parallels between two recent events: the news early this month that the world's last remaining Multics system has been decommissioned and the announcement that Fred Rogers, the beloved host of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, is hanging up his cardigan for the very last time.
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