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Multicians.org
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 many ways its antithesis.
http://www.multicians.org/
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
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
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
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
Cardiff Multics
A brief history and some photographs of the system at the University of Wales.
http://www.dsds.demon.co.uk/comp/multics.htm
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 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
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/
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/features/0047/kiss-gunn.shtml
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
osOpinion: The Life and Times of the Multics OS
Exploring the possibilities of porting the OS to a modern hardware environment.
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16013.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
Wikipedia - Multics
A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
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