MULTICS Installation, Halifax

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Nov 2 08:23:49 2000

> It was thus said that the Great Douglas Quebbeman once stated:
> >
> > However, Multics could be re-implemented on any architecture
> > that either provides a paged, segmented virtual memory with
> > rings of protection, or, on any architecture fast enough that
> > those features could be emulated.
>
> Like the Intel 80386 or higher.
>
> -spc (Now I have to find info on Multics ... )

I should have mentioned that Multics also was closely tied
to a 36-bit word size... a re-implementation could probably
get around this, but a port would be difficult...

However, a port would work for an emulator, where you'd have
control of all aspects of the target architecture.

Regards,
-dq
Received on Thu Nov 02 2000 - 08:23:49 GMT