28 Jan
1999
28 Jan
'99
2:58 p.m.
At 07:52 PM 28-01-99 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
Are there going to be any systems still running MULTICS
in ten years?
The list at http://www.multicians.org/sites.html sure looks dire.
I don't have to tell anyone on this list how incredibly historically
important MULTICS is.
I guess the only way we are going to see "working" MULTICS systems in the
future is if someone writes a suitable emulator for the GE635 hardware.
It's been a while since I read
Organick's book on MULTICS and my copy seems to have been lost somewhere
along the
line, but I don't think that an emulator should be too hard (of course,
someone will
immediately come up with a good reason why it won't work!).
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