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28 Jan
1999
28 Jan
'99
1:52 p.m.
Are there going to be any systems still running MULTICS in ten years?
The list at http://www.multicians.org/sites.html sure looks dire.
I don't have to tell anyone on this list how incredibly historically
important MULTICS is.
- Joe
28 Jan
28 Jan
2:58 p.m.
New subject: MULTICS survivability
At 07:52 PM 28-01-99 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
Are there going to be any systems still running MULTICS
in ten years?
The list at http://www.multicians.org/sites.html sure looks dire.
I don't have to tell anyone on this list how incredibly historically
important MULTICS is.
I guess the only way we are going to see "working" MULTICS systems in the
future is if someone writes a suitable emulator for the GE635 hardware.
It's been a while since I read
Organick's book on MULTICS and my copy seems to have been lost somewhere
along the
line, but I don't think that an emulator should be too hard (of course,
someone will
immediately come up with a good reason why it won't work!).
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au
Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999
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4:30 p.m.
New subject: MULTICS survivability
Huw Davies wrote:
At 07:52 PM 28-01-99 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III
wrote:
How close is a GE635 to a Honeywell DPS-6? I know the picture on the main
page of the multicians web site looks like a DPS-8 to me. Anyway, it was
found to be easier to run a some of the DPS-6 software under emulation on
HP9000 workstations than to rewrite it (I helped decommision the DPS-6's at
the last site I worked at, and install the HP9000's). I believe they were
running GCOS-6 as well as the application under the emulator, but do not
remember for sure.
Yes, I know GECOS != MULTICS
Zane
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Are there going to be any systems still running
MULTICS in ten years?
The list at http://www.multicians.org/sites.html sure looks dire.
I don't have to tell anyone on this list how incredibly historically
important MULTICS is.
I guess the only way we are going to see "working" MULTICS systems in the
future is if someone writes a suitable emulator for the GE635 hardware.
It's been a while since I read
Organick's book on MULTICS and my copy seems to have been lost somewhere
along the
line, but I don't think that an emulator should be too hard (of course,
someone will
immediately come up with a good reason why it won't work!).
4:46 p.m.
New subject: MULTICS survivability
At 10:30 PM 28-01-99 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
How close is a GE635 to a Honeywell DPS-6? I know the
picture on the main
page of the multicians web site looks like a DPS-8 to me.
I believe that a DPS-6 is a GE635 less a bit - in particular the hardware
protection
mechanism (it's been a long day and I can't remember the Multics word for
this). My guess is that if you had a DPS-6 emulator adding the GE635 stuff
mightn't be too hard but again this is based on reading Organick's book
about 10 years ago...
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Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999
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Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"
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