From: "Jeffrey H. Johnson" <trnsz@pobox.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Public access multics
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:17:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EE36B4F0-6DE1-4B26-B30F-527DCA69C823@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B48F6A3-374A-4579-AE8F-35BD328D07F9@reagan.com>
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Greetings,
Multics, while not a 'massive' sales success in retrospect, was certainly not the failure commonly believed and wasn't treated as one in the press of the time - at least not until after the decision was made by Honeywell-Bull to phase out the the Multics (and CP-6) products to focus on GCOS - GCOS7/GCOS8 is still a major player today.
"Honeywell is having considerable — and surprising — success with the ultra-secure Multics operating system … Besides 3-5 systems within Honeywell, Multics has been installed or committed within Nippon Electric, Rome Air Development Center, USAF Data Services Center, and Ford." from mid-1970's industry press.
See also https://multicians.org/myths.html
We have about 120 members on BAN - including many original and new Multicians who make the project possible. We're always working on new things and projects - see "pmotd -a" when logged in for some of the most recent activity.
I'd be happy to answer any questions on BAN.AI if anyone has particular questions - or just ssh to dps8@m.trnsz.com - feel free to use the guest account. I don't want to take the list too off-topic. We have many exclusive features that I hope makes BAN.AI a 'special' (and loved) system, a lot more coming.
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https://ban.ai/multics
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2018-09-02 3:17 ` Jeffrey H. Johnson [this message]
2018-09-03 13:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-03 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-04 2:47 ` Jeffrey H. Johnson
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2018-09-02 21:47 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-03 6:18 ` arnold
2018-09-01 23:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-01 23:44 ` jcs
2018-09-01 23:25 [TUHS] Fwd: " Noel Chiappa
2018-09-02 4:05 ` Will Senn
2018-09-02 4:25 ` [TUHS] " Jeffrey H. Johnson
2018-09-02 22:30 ` Will Senn
2018-09-01 20:31 Will Senn
2018-09-01 21:27 ` jcs
2018-09-01 23:24 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-02 13:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-02 16:23 ` Charles Anthony
2018-09-02 18:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-02 19:09 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-02 0:57 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-02 2:06 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-02 2:32 ` Charles Anthony
2018-09-02 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
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