Multics

Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) was a timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and still in use today. The system was started as a joint project by MIT Project MAC, Bell Telephone Laboratories, and GE. Prof. F. J. Corbato of MIT led the project. Bell Labs withdrew from the development effort in 1969, and later GE sold its computer business to Honeywell, which continued Multics development and offered Multics as a commercial product. At the peak there were almost 100 Multics sites.

This page contains various information about Multics, most of it taken from the news group alt.os.multics. There is an archive of past alt.os.multics articles on Oakland's Gopher servers.

Tom Van Vleck has compiled various Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Included in these are lists of Multics sites, Multics developers (Multicians), a Multics history, a Multics chronology, a Multics bibliography, and a new Multics encyclopedia. You can also pick up a PostScript version of the Multics logo here.

Transactions in the Live_Coverage forum meeting, recording the last minutes of MIT Multics.

Paul Green has a repository of Multics programs and papers, and a paper on Multics Virtual Memory.

There's also a new Multics web site at Stratus.

New stuff:

Here's a Java applet with the Multics maze.

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