On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote: > When Multics was officially released as free software a couple of > years ago, there was a flurry of activity aimed at getting some sort > of emulator up and running to run it. Did anything ever come of that > or did folks just lose interest (or find out that the needed > GE/Honeywell hardware was too poorly-documented to write an emulator > of)
I hadn't checked on Multics progress in quite a while. Yesterday I discovered that the DPS-8/M emulator at: https://SourceForge.net/projects/dps8m/ is far enough along to boot Multics. I thought some folks on this list might be interested in it. Using the files from the QuickStart_MR12.6d.zip archive I managed to boot Multics yesterday. The README file in that archive describes how to boot the system and sign on as Repair.SysAdmin, but not much else. I'd never touched a Multics system before, and didn't have time yesterday to get to know the system. Does anyone know of any Multics How-Tos, especially how to shut Multics down properly? -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.Lassie.xyz http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.