11 Mar
2016
11 Mar
'16
6:57 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at rawfeddogs.net wrote:
Multics Cheat Sheet <http://ringzero.wikidot.com/wiki:multics-cheat-sheet
Multicians <http://www.multicians.org/
-- Charles
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Michael
Kerpan wrote:
ESC (The ATTN key)
logout * * (SHuts down the daemons)
When it prompts (->) again, hit ESC to release the console.
You should 6 or so messages about daemons logging out.
When the messages stop:
ESC
shut
If it asks if it's okay to shut down:
y
You should see messages, ending with 'bce>' (Boot Command Environment, the
long lost ancestor of GRUB).
ESC
die
y
Depending on the startup script, you may then see the simh prompt 'simh>'
q
Multics today: http://ringzero.wikidot.com/
Multics FAQ <http://ringzero.wikidot.com/wiki:multics-faq When Multics was officially released as free
software a couple of
years ago, there was a flurry of activity aimed at getting some sort
of emulator up and running to run it. Did anything ever come of that
or did folks just lose interest (or find out that the needed
GE/Honeywell hardware was too poorly-documented to write an emulator
of)
I 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.
Using the files from the QuickStart_MR12.6d.zip archive I managed to boot
Multics yesterday. The README file in that archive describes how to boot
the system and sign on as Repair.SysAdmin, but not much else. I'd never
touched a Multics system before, and didn't have time yesterday to get to
know the system. Does anyone know of any Multics How-Tos, especially how
to
shut Multics down properly?
On the console: