Multics



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14 pages found in Multics:

The Creation of the Unix Operating System
The history of the development of Unix at Bell Labs, and how Multics was an important stepping stone.
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/

Honeywell DPS8
Brief technical information on the DPS8 platform used to run the Multics OS, plus links.
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/honeywell-DPS8.html

Introduction to Multics
Providing Multics OS concepts and examples.
http://www.jinformation.com/multics/index.htm

The Life and Times of the Multics OS
A short essay exploring the possibilities of porting the OS to a modern hardware environment
http://www.geocities.com/steelalloy/multics.htm

Mainz Multics
The history and technical details of the DPS8 installation at the University of Mainz, Germany. Photo gallery of Multics hardware components.
http://www.vaxman.de/historic_computers/multics/multics.html

Multics Home Page
Information on Multics, much of it from the newsgroup alt.os.multics.
http://www.mit.edu/afs/net/user/srz/www/multics.html

Multics Psalm
A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file.
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png

Multics Repository
A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languagues, plus papers and other documentation [ftp].
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html

Multics Source Repository
Complete Source for MR12.5 contributed by Bull HN and MIT.
http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics_Internet_Server/Multics_sources.html

Wikipedia - Multics
A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics

Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers
Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." <small>(November 23, 2000)</small>
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2000-11-22/news/multics-and-mr-rogers/

Slashdot: The Last Multics System Decommissioned
The announcement of the closure of the last Multics system and a brief discussion as the significance of the Operating System. <small>(November 13, 2000)</small>
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml

Risks Digest: The End of the Multics Era
Article by Peter G. Neumann on the decommissioning of the last Multics system at the Canadian Department of National Defence in October 2000. <small>(November 8, 2000)</small>
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4

Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis
The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS. [PDF] <small>(1974)</small>
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf


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