April 1, 2025Volume 23, issue 1 PDF For decades, software reuse was only a lofty goal. Now it's very real. Russ Cox In March 1972, the United States Air Force started a review of a Honeywell Multics system to understand whether it could be used in secure environments. The report was issued in mid-1974 and concluded that Multics, while not secure, was better than its peers and might be a reasonable starting point for a secure system.23 The report raised the potential of adding a backdoor (it was ...