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A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file.
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png
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osOpinion: The Life and Times of the Multics OS
Exploring the possibilities of porting the OS to a modern hardware environment.
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16013.html
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Honeywell DPS8
Brief technical information on the DPS8 platform used to run the Multics OS, plus links.
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/honeywell-DPS8.html
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Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers
Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers'
Neighborhood."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0047/kiss-gunn.shtml
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The Creation of the Unix Operating System
The history of the development of Unix at Bell Labs, and how Multics was an important stepping
stone.
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
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Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis
The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS. Published in 1974.
Requires Acrobat Reader.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf
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Multics Home Page
Information on Multics, much of it from the newsgroup alt.os.multics.
http://www.mit.edu/afs/net/user/srz/www/multics.html
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Cardiff Multics
A brief history and some photographs of the system at the University of Wales.
http://www.dsds.demon.co.uk/comp/multics.htm
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Mainz Multics
The history and technical details of the DPS8 installation at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Site includes a photo gallery of Multics hardware components.
http://www.vaxman.de/historic_computers/multics/multics.html
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Multics Repository
A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languagues, plus papers and other
documentation [ftp].
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html
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Risks Digest: The End of the Multics Era
Article by Peter G. Neumann on the decommissioning of the last Multics system at the Canadian
Department of National Defence in October 2000.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4
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Slashdot: The Last Multics System Decommissioned
The announcement of the closure of the last Multics system and a brief discussion as the
significance of the Operating System.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml
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Multicians.org
Multics was the acronym for "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service" - a mainframe
timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used up until 2000. Although this was the immediate
forerunner of the Unix operating system, it was also in many ways its antithesis.
http://www.multicians.org/
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