Least We Forget: MULTICS

[gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA]

From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA>

The idea of an improved, standardized error message function is
a good one.  Various implementations have appeared on USENIX
tapes in the past.  The problem is not so much in designing
something more generally useful than perror(), but in getting
universal acceptance of it.  I wonder if AT&T will give serious
consideration to suggestions like this now that they are
supposedly more responsive to the marketplace.  Unfortunately
they seem to be getting sucked into targeting new work at the
small system end user rather than at software developers.