MULTICS Installation, Halifax

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Wed Nov 1 08:13:28 2000

> Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > I wonder if my DPS-6 could run Multics? I would like to think it has to
> > have some coolness factor other than being big and impressive :)
>
> Having worked on both (although in the case of the DPS-6 only briefly) I'm
> fairly sure that they're not. For one thing IIRC, GCOS-6 and GCOS-8 were
at
> least somewhat different.
>
> What someone really needs to do is write a freeware emulator for the
DPS-8.
> I know at least one commercial DPS-6 emulator exists. And, no, I'm not
> about to tackle writing one.
>
> Personally I think the DPS-6 is a bit boring, but a multiprocessor DPS-8
> configuration is a really cool piece of hardware!

We only just in the last few weeks finally got a listing of the
full DPS-8/M instruction set (or was it the Level 68?) posted to
the web. So at least one of the most important resources for
getting started is now available...

-dq
Received on Wed Nov 01 2000 - 08:13:28 GMT