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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
http://www.multicians.org/
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis
The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf
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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/
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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
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Multics Psalm
A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file.
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png
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