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Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool

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Liam Proven
Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool
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The Unix Heritage Society has released the source code for KSOS, a 1970s-era secure operating system developed for the US Department of Defense. The OS is notable for being implemented in the type-safe Modula language rather than C, predating modern efforts in formal verification.

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