5 Sep
2010
5 Sep
'10
10:08 a.m.
At 9:01 AM -0700 9/5/10, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/4/10 10:59 PM, Andy Holt wrote:
While I never worked on a Multics system, I spent a few years working
on a couple DPS-8 Mainframes running GCOS-8. The main CPU is just a
tiny part of the system.
Zane
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I'm astonished that there doesn't seem to
be a Multics emulator (OK, the
hardware is the epitome of CISC, but it is one of the true classics).
There isn't quite enough information on the I/O system. A few people
have gotten
as far as trying to get the main CPU to boot.