[rescue] Multics--completely MIA?

Ahmed Ewing aewing at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 16:33:18 CDT 2007


On 4/15/07, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was reading about historical computers today (much more fun than
> doing homework), and I again came across some pages on Multics. It
> seems that Canada shut down the world's last running Multics system
> back in 2000. There are no working simulators (that I found), and the
> software itself isn't online. Is Multics pretty much MIA now, except
> for some old machines locked in a DoD storage facility or something?
>
> John F., luddite-in-training
> --

Chances are you've already come across this list of people:

http://www.multicians.org/multicians.html

But if not, that would be a great place to start picking brains. The
rest of the website is very informative as well. No OS dump to be had,
though.

Hope that helps,

-A



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