11 Mar
2016
11 Mar
'16
9:11 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:02 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
On 3/11/2016 8:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
as much
real hardware as I can chase down (I/O selectric OPCON, maybe a
tape drive, a line printer, ?)
Maybe we can hook up a beaglebone to your 6180 panel?
-- Charles
On Mar 11, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Kevin Monceaux
<Kevin at rawfeddogs.net> wrote:
The problem with GCOS is that there isn't a history I know of that it was
anything but Honeywells property. A lot of negotiation and persistence on
the part of many folks went to getting it to where the Multics code could
be released. And it was lucky to be saved @ MIT and the CHM with
donations.
I don't know of anyone with GCOS when it has been mentioned over the
history of the discussions about this hardware.
Many thanks to Harry and Charles for writing the emulator, and to the
others reviving the system.
I plan to have a 6180 panel at VCF West and an original 645 board from the
first Multics system for show and tell.
thanks
Jim
I was tentatively planning to be at VCF West with a Multics emulation, and
OI hadn't checked on Multics progress in quite a while. Yesterday I
discovered that the DPS-8/M emulator at:
https://SourceForge.net/projects/dps8m/
is far enough along to boot Multics. I thought some folks on this list
might be interested in it.
What I?d like to know is if any copies of GCOS-8 exist in the wild.
That?s what I?d personally really like to boot on the emulator. I used to
be able configure all the IOP?s, IOM?s, CPU?s, etc. from memory, power them
up, and boot GCOS-8.
Zane