3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
4:33 p.m.
That is exciting news! I occasionally peek around to try to take the
temperature of H-6180 emulation... It will be a great day when I can load
up my own Multics! Getting the chance to actually use Multics has long been
a wish of mine.
I finally got the chance to try my own alma mater's contribution to that
time in history, Michigan Terminal System, under Hercules when the binary
tape images were released a few years back... Now I'm just waiting on
Multics, then I will be sated ;)
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:58 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
On 12/3/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Zane Healy
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 8:37 PM
On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Rich Alderson
The only thing we used on our Multics 6180
was the Cobol compiler.
Multics did not have one at the time, and I don't know
if anyone ported one
after the 75 timeframe I was using it.
FWIW, the Multics Simulator which uses the sources and binaries posted by
Al is coming along nicely. It has limited ring1 admin running (with bugs)
on the console. They also were able to take the release they had and do
the multics equivalent of creating a boot tape.
There are a myriad of bugs to fix, but an amazing amount works now.
At the time I was on Multics, in 75, I think all the people working on
Emacs used the MIT machine for development. Also Macsyma was being
developed and hosted on Multics.
Jim
I can't say. It was written in Multics MACLISP, so if *that* ran on
<RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org> wrote:
If it ran on Multics, I find myself wondering if it ran on GCOS-8.
I used Multics Emacs
[snip] GCOS...
Rich
Rich Alderson
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