Ray Mullins wrote:
When a large community college district located in Southern California shot
themselves in the foot (IMHO) and dumped their 370/158 for a Honeywell
Series 6000 (without Multics, but GCOS 7 + TSS) in the early 1980's, a "B"
language compiler came with the system.
past post in this thread about Multics and vulnerabilities
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#12 Special characters in passwords was
Re: RACF - Password rules
Multics was on the 5th flr, 545 tech sq ... box originally was GE ... before GE
sold their computer business to Honeywell.
Cambrdige Science Center was on 4th flr, 545 tech sq
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
which brought you virtual machines, the internal network, a lot of interactive
tools, GML (precursor to SGML, HTML, XML, etc).
One of my hobbies was building enhanced, customized operating systems for
internal distribution. I've joked before (sometimes with multics aficionados)
that the number of customers vm installations was larger than the number
of internal vm installations; and the total number of internal vm installations
were significantly larger than the number of customer vm installations;
and that i directly distributed customized vm operation system to. However,
at various times, the number of internal installations that I built and directly
distributed customized operating systems for ... were as large as the
total number of Multics systems that ever existed.
recent post with discussion about comparing total number of multics systems
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#19 The Future of CPUs: What's After
Multi-Core?
post about csc/vm distribution
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
with old email from apr75 about the distribution
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
post about sjr/vm distribution
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question
with old email from apr80 about the distribution
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800429
one long-time organization that i did this for ... dating back to the cp67
days was the HONE organization ... that used (originally cp67 and then)
vm370-based systems to provide the world-wide online, interactive support
for sales, marketing, and field personnel
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
multics web page
http://www.multicians.org/multics.html
a multics installation was AFDS mentioned here
http://www.multicians.org/site-afdsc.html
and for other drift, here is post about AFDS looking at ordering
couple hundred 4341s in the late 70s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#12 Multics Nostalgia
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#15 departmental servers
with old email from apr79
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
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