Thanks for this - I'm reading the Multics retrospective - do you know of a follow up work? I'd be very interested to see a detailed account as to why some of these features never got implemented.
The paper kind of just leaves it at:
With the growth of individual workstations and personal computers, developers concluded (incorrectly) that security
was not as important on minicomputers or single-user
computers.
The paper kind of just leaves it at:
With the growth of individual workstations and personal computers, developers concluded (incorrectly) that security was not as important on minicomputers or single-user computers.