19 Jul
2025
19 Jul
'25
2:44 a.m.
There are still a few Multics sites running - and semi-active community
development.
Courtesy of an old fork of SIMH that became a very full fledged DPS8/6800
simulator. I was running MR11 something on a Pi for a while, and then in
GCP.
Brought back old times - my second computer - after GCOS.
*sigh*
I think there may also be a reference to Flag Day in the original printed
Hacker's Dictionary, and I think in the Jargon file from which it was
derived? I don't have any old copies of either around to check
--tep
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
resist.)
I thought it was a purposeful choice to go from multicians to
morticians after Multics had been retired for long enough :) With
technical people, you never know...
Warner
Interestingly, that phrasing comes directly from
morticians.org.
People are dying to find out what's on that site....
(Ok, sorry; clearly Rich typo'ed "multicians.org" here, but I
couldn't