2 Sep
2018
2 Sep
'18
3:27 a.m.
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.