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From: jcs <lists@irreal.org>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Public access multics
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:44:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wos46awj.fsf@irreal.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180901233341.0CAB118C09E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>


Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

> Per:
>
>   https://multicians.org/multics.htmlhttps://multicians.org/multics.html
>
> "Harry Reed and Charles Anthony reached a major milestone on the 
> Multics
> simulator on Saturday 08 November, 2014. Their SIMH-based 
> simulator booted
> Multics MR 12.5, came to operator command level, entered admin 
> mode, created a
> small PL/I program, compiled and executed it, and shut down. 
> Release 1.0 of
> the simulator is now available."

Hmmm. That's interesting. Back in the 70's I earned my living 
working on H6000s (although not on Multics). I'm pretty sure that 
no one would have bothered with a simulator if not for Multics so 
that's another reason not to dismiss Multics as a failure: 
someone, today, still cares enough to write a simulator just to 
run it.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-02  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-01 23:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-01 23:44 ` jcs [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-03 13:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-03 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-04  2:47   ` Jeffrey H. Johnson
2018-09-02 21:47 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-03  6:18 ` arnold
     [not found] <5B48F6A3-374A-4579-AE8F-35BD328D07F9@reagan.com>
2018-09-02  3:17 ` Jeffrey H. Johnson
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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