We should stop celebrating these nerds already. Theie egos have swollen beyond measure. They have ruined the entire Bay Area. We need an exhibit about the real heroes of the valley. The Alum Rock Albinos!

I'll bet they haven't heard of CTSS or UNICOS, or how they revolutionized supercomputing. These have had more impact on the Computing Age than the programs mentioned here. Or how TCP/IP was used before the WWW was created. Quite a few major details has been omitted on their website.

@the_punnisher:

"I'll bet they haven't heard of CTSS or UNICOS"

Holy cow, you are wrong!

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The article does not state that these are the ONLY computer programs that changed the world, just some of them. It's just like any other museum exhibition: curators select a certain finite number of examples to illustrate the point without stating that these are the only examples. [Portion removed due to disrespectful comment or offensive language]

No one is saying that UNICOS isn't important but ultimately it isn't an operating system that makes news breaking history. An operating system is a big complicated program that lets multiple big complicated programs live together in (relative) harmony on the same system. That's what an operating system is. The operating system itself doesn't really do anything. The applications/programs that run on that operating system are the news worthy items.
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UNICOS was demanded by our customers; Cray Research developed a Cray hardware solution. This solution allowed UNIX program applications to run smoothly. THIS WAS A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM! At that time I also bought ESIX,ENIX operating software for my PC. Yes, UNICOS was compatible with UNIX applications that ran under the ESIX,ENIX Operating System I bought.
Cray Time Sharing System and Cray Operating System were the only operating systems we offered before UNICOS. When I joined Cray, I posted a copy of the internal 386 cpu poster and told everyone: THIS IS OUR COMPETITOR.
When I originally visited the Computer Museum, I offered the existing Cray bound books I had; the staff brushed me off. I happen to have the UNICOS programming handbook. The UNICOS Operating System DID CHANGE THE WORLD AT SO MANY LEVELS! The placement of the heat resistance tiles was done on a Cray supercomputer, the Boeing 747 " flew " on a Cray supercomputer before it was built. Where do you think our government built the weapons it has? On a Cray Supercomputer, Where did the CGI for " The Last Starfighter " come from? Our supercomputer is actually featured in the credits after the movie.
And finally: When you fill up your vehicles with gasoline, you can thank a Cray supercomputer for the exploration and underground mapping of the oil deposits that have been used.

Now tell me that Cray Research wasn't playing a part in our world today. Or that UNICOS isn't an operating System. P.S. WINDOWS was not an operating system; It ran under PC-DOS or MS-DOS. I was part of all this history; I personally had an effect on computing history when I grew up in Silicon Valley. I do not like Revisionist History or anyone who preaches it.