2 Sep
2018
2 Sep
'18
5:24 a.m.
I was at MIT in the late 60's, using Multics when Bell Labs decided to pull
out. A problem, in retrospect, was the use of PL/I as the primary language.
PL/I was a language designed by a committee, and it showed. It would never
have made a plausible systems programming language. But Multics was a lot
more fun to use than CTSS, which it replaced.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:27 PM, jcs <lists(a)irreal.org> wrote:
Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> writes:
So, it looks like someone has gone and started running a multics instance:
http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/semibug/2018-August/000288.html
That’s interesting, and y’all may even have been aware of it. But, I was
thinking that Multics was a failed predecessor of unix and it’s craziness
an inspiration for how unix isn’t multics... straighten me out :)
Failed only in the sense that the Labs withdrew from the project.
Honeywell, which bought out GE's computer division, sold Multics systems,
although I don't remember them being very successful.
The real mystery is what it's running on. Multics originally ran on the
GE/H 600(0) systems. I doubt any are still around. It's probably a
simulator but I've never heard of one for the H6000.