12 Mar
2016
12 Mar
'16
12:21 a.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane Healy
Sent: 12 March 2016 04:51
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Subject: Re: Any word on the Multics revival front?
Sadly, I doubt it very much. It was still in use on emulated hardware until
relatively recently and I assume BULL was still making money from it and guarding its
assets. Thinkage still have GCOS products listed on their web site.
https://www.thinkage.ca/english/gcos/index.shtml
but sadly no longer a "B" compiler. I think that one has slipped past me...
Dave Wade
G4UGM
On Mar 11, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Kevin Monceaux
<Kevin at rawfeddogs.net>
wrote:
OI 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.
What I?d like to know is if any copies of GCOS-8 exist in the wild. That?s what
I?d personally really like to boot on the emulator. I used to be able configure
all the IOP?s, IOM?s, CPU?s, etc. from memory, power them up, and boot
GCOS-8.
Zane