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Multics

CaptPajamaShark
10-09-2007, 11:52 PM
If anyone actually knows what this is I'll be a bit surprised.

I'm looking for the file for Multics Operating System. Yes it's a bit old, but I wanna play around with it and it's nice to own a piece of computing history....that can probably fit on my flash drive easy.

Nodsu
10-10-2007, 06:20 AM
Uhm.. And which computer would you run it on? Or do you have a 1970s mainframe in your basement? With USB ports???

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jobeard
11-17-2007, 01:00 PM
you might recall that it's 8086 based (or was) and about the vintage as VMS and MUMPS.

consider it DOA.

What feature were you interested in?

CaptPajamaShark
11-17-2007, 02:41 PM
I think it would be fun just to see how it works, what methods they went through just to make it work back then and how efficient it is.

I also want to make a copy of it and tinker around with it.

And I may have found an emulator that would let me run it.

Nodsu
11-18-2007, 06:23 AM
Actually, the MULTICS source code was released to the public just recently: http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/

Good luck making it work :D

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