Huw Davies wrote:
>At 07:52 PM 28-01-99 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
>>Are there going to be any systems still running MULTICS in ten years?
>>
>>The list at http://www.multicians.org/sites.html sure looks dire.
>>
>>I don't have to tell anyone on this list how incredibly historically
>>important MULTICS is.
>
>I guess the only way we are going to see "working" MULTICS systems in the
>future is if someone writes a suitable emulator for the GE635 hardware.
>It's been a while since I read
>Organick's book on MULTICS and my copy seems to have been lost somewhere
>along the
>line, but I don't think that an emulator should be too hard (of course,
>someone will
>immediately come up with a good reason why it won't work!).
How close is a GE635 to a Honeywell DPS-6? I know the picture on the main
page of the multicians web site looks like a DPS-8 to me. Anyway, it was
found to be easier to run a some of the DPS-6 software under emulation on
HP9000 workstations than to rewrite it (I helped decommision the DPS-6's at
the last site I worked at, and install the HP9000's). I believe they were
running GCOS-6 as well as the application under the emulator, but do not
remember for sure.
Yes, I know GECOS != MULTICS
Zane
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Received on Fri Jan 29 1999 - 00:30:53 GMT