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- Multics was the acronym for "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service" - a mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used up until 2000. Although this was the immediate forerunner of the Unix operating system, it was also in
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Introduction to Multics - Providing Multics OS concepts and examples. - http://www.jinformation.com/multics/index.htm    Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers - Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." - http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0047/kiss-gunn.php Wikipedia - Multics - A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics Multics Psalm  - A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file. - http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png 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 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/ Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis - The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS. Published in 1974. Requires Acrobat Reader. - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf 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 Mainz Multics - The history and technical details of the DPS8 installation at the University of Mainz, Germany. Site includes a photo gallery of Multics hardware components. - http://www.vaxman.de/historic_computers/multics/multics.html 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 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. - http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4 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. - http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml |
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