[SunRescue] Re: Multics

[Michael Thompson]

>Is anyone releasing the Mutlics code to public domain?  Maybe we could
>port it to sparc.

I took care of the OS on a Honeywell mainframe running GCOS...about 30
years ago. GCOS shares a lot of code with Multics. It was mostly assembler
with some Fortran, Cobol, and Algol tossed in for some of the utilities.
Really interesting code, especially the CPU dispacher. The security
software was very tightly coupled to the hardware so a port to a different
hardware platform would be difficult.

Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson at IDS.net