Editing Time-sharing (section)

===The computer utility===
Beginning in 1964, the [[Multics]] operating system<ref>{{cite web
    |website=BitSavers
    |url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/multics/AG92-06B_multicsCmds_Nov87.pdf
    |title=Multics Commands and Active Functions (AG92-06)
    |publisher=Honeywell Bull, Inc.
    |date=February 1985
    |access-date=January 10, 2021
    |archive-date=June 6, 2022
    |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606144002/http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/multics/AG92-06B_multicsCmds_Nov87.pdf
    |url-status=dead
    }}</ref> was designed as a [[computing utility]], modeled on the electrical or telephone utilities. In the 1970s, [[Ted Nelson]]'s original "[[Project Xanadu|Xanadu]]" hypertext repository was envisioned as such a service. <!-- It seemed as the computer industry grew that no such consolidation of computing resources would occur as timesharing systems. In the 1990s the concept was, however, revived in somewhat modified form under the banner of [[cloud computing]].-->