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Project MAC: The Research Investment That Made Time-Sharing a Computing Model

Project MAC was a public R&D investment in interactive computing that funded time-sharing, a new computer-science institution, and research that later fed networking and operating systems.

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Multics: The Ambitious Operating-System Investment That Failed Forward Into Unix

Multics was late, expensive, and commercially limited, yet its investment generated operating-system ideas and talent that shaped Unix and decades of software architecture.

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