Multics (Mainframe)

Multics Sites:

Risks Digest: The End of the Multics Era 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. (Multics) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4 Multicians.org 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 (Multics) http://www.multicians.org/ Mainz Multics 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. (Multics) http://www.vaxman.de/historic_computers/multics/multics.html Slashdot: The Last Multics System Decommissioned 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. (Multics) http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml The Creation of the Unix Operating System 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. (Multics) http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis: The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS. Published in 1974. Requires Acrobat Reader. (Multics) http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf Wikipedia - Multics Wikipedia - Multics: A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading. (Multics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics Honeywell DPS8 Honeywell DPS8: Brief technical information on the DPS8 platform used to run the Multics OS, plus links. (Multics) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/honeywell-DPS8.html Multics Repository Multics Repository: A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languagues, plus papers and other documentation [ftp]. (Multics) ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html Multics Home Page Multics Home Page: Information on Multics, much of it from the newsgroup alt.os.multics. (Multics) http://www.mit.edu/afs/net/user/srz/www/multics.html Cardiff Multics Cardiff Multics: A brief history and some photographs of the system at the University of Wales. (Multics) http://www.dsds.demon.co.uk/comp/multics.htm Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers: Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." (Multics) http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0047/kiss-gunn.shtml Multics Psalm Multics Psalm: A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file. (Multics) http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png