Last (or next to last) Multics System to be Decommissioned

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 15:14:57 2000

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> Forwarded from alt.os.multics:
>
> From: "R. Barry Walker" <rbwalker_at_dgs.drenet.dnd.ca>
> Subject: Impending Shutdown - DND-H Multics System
> Date: 09 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT
> Message-ID: <8rtsc8$b9c$1_at_news.drenet.dnd.ca>
> Organization: DREnet News Server
> NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Oct 2000 01:45:44 GMT
> Newsgroups: alt.os.multics
>
> After some 18 years of service, the DND-H Multics system will shut down on
> or about 1100 Atlantic Standard Time 31 Oct. 2000. All of the unique
> applications we wrote for it have been moved over to a series of Unix, Linux
> and even NT servers. It survived the Year 2000 switchover, and now it's
> time to move on.

And someone is going to acquire this hardware for posterity I assume??

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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