Thank you, I hadn't come across that yet. Their prebuilds and QuickStart
readme.txt all worked splendidly. Except, the "tutorial" command did not
work for me
The multics TAP is ~5.2MB. I guess the "version" is MR12, and it lets me
make files and folders of up to 32 characters. It wasn't clear yet to me
on how to list-processes, or to invoke processes to the background. The
manuals (so far) described file structure and PL/1 programming stuff, but
haven't yet come across sections about processes.
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list
Segments = 4, Lengths = 0.
r w 0 12345678901234567890123456789012
r w 0 123456789012345678901234567890
r w 0 12345678901234567890
r w 0 1234567890
r 20:34 0.017 0 level 2
change_wdir abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
r 20:35 0.016 0 level 2
pwd
user_dir_dir>SysAdmin>Repair>test>test2>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
r 20:35 0.016 0 level 2
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The "tutorial" command requires some kind of extra terminal setup, will
have to read more about it later:
tutorial
tutorial: The specified terminal is not supported by the video system.
Opening
\cswitch user_terminal_
r 20:37 0.038 2 level 2
Cool stuff, thanks.
-Steve
On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM Craig Ruff via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
You can also run Multics in a simulator:
https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m
It's been a while since I've been actively involved in that project, but
it ran nicely.