[rescue] Multics--completely MIA?

John Floren slawmaster at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 21:11:37 CDT 2007


On 4/15/07, James Fogg <James at jdfogg.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?
>
>
> It's not really dead, it lives in the heart of many other operating
> systems today.

I understand that, but I'm talking about pure Multics, not derivatives
and borrowers. :)


John
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