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Home / Computers / Software / Operating Systems / Mainframe / Multics
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- Multicians.org - Multiplexed Information and Computing Service: A mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and still used today. Was the inspiration for UNIX.
www.multicians.org
- Multics Home page - Various information on Multics, most of it from news group alt.os.multics.
www.mit.edu:8001/afs/net/user/srz/www/multics.html
- The end of the Multics Era - Now that the very last Multics system has been decommissioned (last month, the Canadian Department of National Defense 5-processor configuration in Halifax), I am reminded of the primary goals of Multics expressed in the 1965 Fall Joint paper by Corbato' and Vyssotsky. [The Risks Digest]
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4
- The Last Multics System Decommissioned - I assumed these were all long since junked or put into museums, since my first exposure to the name Multics was in books which spoke mostly in the past tense. That list of goals is one that I hope architecture designers consult frequently. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml
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