2 Nov
2000
2 Nov
'00
12:23 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Douglas Quebbeman once
stated:
I should have mentioned that Multics also was closely tied
to a 36-bit word size... a re-implementation could probably
get around this, but a port would be difficult...
However, a port would work for an emulator, where you'd have
control of all aspects of the target architecture.
Regards,
-dq
However, Multics could be re-implemented on any architecture
that either provides a paged, segmented virtual memory with
rings of protection, or, on any architecture fast enough that
those features could be emulated.
Like the Intel 80386 or higher.
-spc (Now I have to find info on Multics ... )