[SunRescue] multics is dead, long live multics!

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Who owns the assets to it?  Hmm.  A quick look around turns up Bull HN
Information Systems in Billerica, MA, USA.  Are they still in business?
If not (and assuming they didn't sell the rights before closing), then who
would own the source, or would it then revert to the employees that wrote
it, or would it revert to the public domain.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 09:00:13 (-0400), Joshua D. Boyd wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive
> >
> > Is anyone releasing the Mutlics code to public domain?  Maybe we could
> > port it to sparc.
> 
> It's written in PL/1.  So's the PL/1 compiler for it.
> 
> (no, I doubt the code will ever see the light of day, even though it's
> probably sitting on whatever media might have gone with the DOCKMASTER
> machine at the museum)
> 
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