11 Mar
2016
11 Mar
'16
6:22 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote:
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?
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Kevin
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Bruceville, TX
What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
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