 Home Page. Multics site home page |
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| Home Page. Lynx friendly home page |
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03/11/08 |
| Changes. Reverse chronological list of website changes this year. |
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04/24/08 |
| Changes 1994-2005. Website changes in prior years. |
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01/09/08 |
| Image Gallery. Thumbnails of images on the site. |
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01/06/08 |
| About the Website. Administrative information. |
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12/06/07 |
| Web Site Design. Design principles and maintenance instructions. |
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04/08/07 |
| Links. Links to other sites on the Web relevant to Multics. |
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04/24/08 |
| Site Map |
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02/28/08 |
| General Info and FAQ. Overview of Multics and online info |
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11/15/07 |
| Features. Features of the system |
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02/29/08 |
| DPS 8M Instruction Set. Meaning of instruction set mnemonics |
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01/16/07 |
| 6180 opcodes - normal. Operation Code Map (bit 27 = 0) |
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10/14/00 |
| 6180 opcodes - EIS. Operation Code Map (bit 27 = 1) |
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10/14/00 |
| AL39 Multics Processor Manual. 1.5MB PDF |
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02/25/08 |
| History. Narrative history of Multics. |
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04/20/08 |
| Myths. Incorrect statements about Multics found on the web. |
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12/13/07 |
| Chronology. List of Multics related events in time order |
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06/20/07 |
| Letter From Corby. On the occasion of the shutdown of the last Multics system. |
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11/20/05 |
| The Multics History Project. Project to preserve historical artifacts about the Multics operating system. |
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02/22/06 |
| History Project Wish List. Material we'd like to find for the Multics History Project. |
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02/24/06 |
| Bibliography. Papers, books, memos, and manuals related to Multics |
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03/18/08 |
| Multicians. List of contributors to Multics. |
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04/23/08 |
| Multicians Registration. Signup form |
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12/18/07 |
| multicians.org. Information on mail addresses in the multicians.org domain. |
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12/06/07 |
| Execution Environment. The execution environment for Multics user programs. |
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02/29/08 |
| Communications and Networking. The evolution of Multics communication and networking facilities. |
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09/24/07 |
| PL/I. History of the Multics PL/I implementation |
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11/09/06 |
| TMG. Language used to build EPL. |
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11/20/05 |
| Version I PL/I Timeline |
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01/17/07 |
| TBL - Table Building Language |
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11/20/05 |
| Memorabilia. Trinkets, T-shirts, etc |
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01/14/07 |
| Humor. Jokes about Multics |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics Humor at ENWGS. Jokes about ENWGS |
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11/20/05 |
| Observations about Software Maintenance. A 1984 talk by Paul Stachour about the Multics Way. |
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02/19/08 |
| Sites. Listing of all Multics sites |
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04/16/08 |
| Site Timeline. Graphical display of site history |
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07/13/07 |
| Site History: AFDSC. US Air Force Data Services Center, Pentagon |
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03/10/07 |
| Site History: Avon. Avon Universities Computing Centre, Bristol, England |
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11/20/05 |
| Site History: Bell Canada. Bell Canada, 2 sites |
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12/13/07 |
| Site History: CISL. Honeywell Cambridge Information Systems Laboratory |
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11/20/05 |
| Site History: DND-H. Canadian Department of National Defence, Halifax NS |
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02/13/06 |
| Site History: DOCKMASTER. US National Security Agency, Linthicum MD |
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08/03/07 |
| Site History: Ford. Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI |
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11/20/05 |
| More Pictures of the Ford Multics Decomissioning. Cake at the Wake. |
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11/20/05 |
| Site History: GM. General Motors Corporate, Detroit, MI |
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11/20/05 |
| Site history: MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
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11/20/05 |
| MIT and BTL Hardware (1967) |
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11/20/05 |
| Site History: NWGS. Naval War Games system, 4 sites. |
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11/20/05 |
| Site History: OU. Oakland University |
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01/16/07 |
| Site History: PRHA. Puerto Rican Highway Authority, San Juan, PR |
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01/06/08 |
| Site History: RADC. Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, Rome NY |
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01/06/08 |
| Site History: RAE. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire, England |
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01/16/07 |
| Site History: STC. Standard Telephones and Cables, New Southgate, London, England |
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03/04/07 |
| Site History: System M. Honeywell System M, Phoenix AZ |
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01/16/07 |
| Site History: System X. Bull Systeme X, Louveciennes, France |
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03/04/07 |
| Site History: UC & ACTC. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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03/12/06 |
| Site History: USGS. US Geological Survey, 3 sites |
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06/14/06 |
| Site History: USL. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette LA |
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01/06/08 |
| Papers Online. Classic papers about Multics available on the Web. |
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04/12/07 |
| Introduction and Overview of the Multics System. Classic 1965 paper introducing Multics |
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12/06/05 |
| System Design of a Computer for Time Sharing Applications. Classic 1965 paper introducing Multics |
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07/27/07 |
| Structure of the Multics Supervisor. Classic 1965 paper introducing Multics supervisor design |
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11/20/05 |
| A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage. Classic 1965 paper introducing Multics file system |
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11/20/05 |
| Communications and Input/Output Switching in a Multiplex Computing System. Classic 1965 paper introducing Multics I/O system |
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11/20/05 |
| Some Thoughts About the Social Implications of Accessible Computing. Classic 1965 paper introducing Multics |
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11/20/05 |
| Virtual memory, processes, and sharing in Multics. 1968 paper on processes, linkage, stack, call |
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04/12/07 |
| The Multics Virtual Memory: Concepts and Design. 1969 paper on virtual memory |
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11/20/05 |
| The Role of Motherhood in the Pop Art of System Programming. 1969 paper on system probramming |
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01/16/07 |
| The Multics PL/1 Compiler. 1969 paper on PL/I compiler implementation |
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11/20/05 |
| The Instrumentation of Multics. 1969 paper on Multics instrumentation |
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10/11/02 |
| A Hardware Architecture for Implementing Protection Rings. 1971 paper on rings |
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04/12/07 |
| The Multics Input/Output System. 1971 paper on I/O system |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics--The first seven years. 1972 |
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11/20/05 |
| Footnotes for the paper Multics: The First Seven Years. Classic 1972 paper on Multics experience |
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11/20/05 |
| A simple linear model of demand paging performance. 1972 paper on working sets |
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03/29/03 |
| MOO in Multics. 1972 paper on games in Multics |
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03/07/06 |
| Automated Merging of Software Modifications. 1977 paper on merge_ascii |
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01/14/06 |
| A Managerial View of the Multics System Development. 1977 paper on Multics project experience |
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11/20/05 |
| The Multics MACLISP Compiler: The Basic Hackery -- a Tutorial. 1977 paper on LISP compiler |
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11/20/07 |
| footnotes for The Multics MACLISP Compiler: The Basic Hackery. Footnotes |
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07/29/06 |
| The Multics System Programming Process. 1978 paper on Multics process |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation. 1979 Mother of All Emacs Papers |
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11/20/07 |
| Experiences With an Interactive Electronic Meeting Facility. 1983 paper on forum |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics Through the Looking Glass. 1980 HLSUA paper on tuning Calgary |
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07/29/06 |
| footnotes for Multics Through the Looking Glass. Footnotes |
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07/29/06 |
| Glossary Index |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - A |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - B |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - C |
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| Glossary - D |
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| Glossary - E |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - F |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - G |
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| Glossary - H |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - I |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - J |
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| Glossary - K |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - L |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - M |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - N |
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| Glossary - O |
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| Glossary - P |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - Q |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - R |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - S |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - T |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - U |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - V |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - W |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - X |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - Y |
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04/19/08 |
| Glossary - Z |
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04/19/08 |
| Stories. Anecdotes and war stories about Multics. |
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04/01/08 |
| Pictures of the MIT 6180. Publicity pictures from 1973 |
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11/20/05 |
| GE-645 Circuit Board. Actual board from the BTL GE-645. |
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02/01/07 |
| It Can Be Done. Writing bug-free software. |
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02/10/07 |
| Shangri-La and the Paris 645. The 1970 "merger" and an early software factory. |
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02/01/07 |
| ST. JOHN'S HOSTS MULTICS. Honeywell internal newsletter from 1981. |
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01/16/07 |
| Origin of the Cookie Monster. Legendary hack |
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11/20/05 |
| Corby. Homage to our leader, Fernando J. Corbató |
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11/20/05 |
| The Spirit of Multics. Remark by Don Wagner. |
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11/20/05 |
| Installing the GE-645 in Paris. Story by Dave Vinograd. |
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11/04/06 |
| Teaching Multics in Tokyo. Story by Dave Vinograd. |
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11/03/06 |
| The Developer's Wail. Story by Dave Vinograd. |
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11/20/05 |
| MacLisp at ENWGS. Story by Robert Matern. |
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11/20/05 |
| Organick's Book. How to order Organick's book from MIT Press |
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11/20/05 |
| Operational Statistics, 1969. Charts from the early days of Multics service at MIT. |
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11/20/05 |
| Honeywell Management. Inside story of Honeywell politics. |
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11/20/05 |
| Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater. A 1976 error message in Latin. |
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11/20/07 |
| How Many Users?. CTSS load and Multics performance in the 1960s. |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics Leap Year Calculations. Y2K anticipated as early as 1966. |
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11/20/05 |
| Summer 1977: I was a Multics Intern. Dream summer vacation in .. Phoenix. |
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02/19/06 |
| Project MAC 25th Anniversary. 1988 Project MAC reunion at MIT. |
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01/07/08 |
| Project MAC 35th Anniversary. 1999 Project MAC retunion |
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11/20/05 |
| USGS-M Recollections. Using Multics in Menlo Park. |
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06/14/06 |
| Alan Sawyer's Multics Bio. Bell Canada applications conversion. |
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07/14/06 |
| Julie Jackson's Multics Bio. What Julie worked on. |
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01/06/08 |
| "You Had To Go To Radio Shack!?". Demonstrating the Cray Station to Ford. |
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11/22/05 |
| Lee Scheffler's Multics Bio. What Lee worked on at Project MAC. |
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11/20/05 |
| Marketing Multics in the Midwest. Selling Multics in Iowa in a snowstorm. |
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11/20/05 |
| Short Operator. The true short operator story. |
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11/20/05 |
| mxload - Read Multics Backup Tapes. Description of mxload tools for reading Multics backup tapes. |
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11/20/05 |
| The Magic Finger. Helping the University of Calgary tune its Multics. |
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11/20/05 |
| Low Bottle Pressure. Famous drum crashes in the 1960s. |
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06/15/07 |
| The 645 Chip. 1984 plan to put a 645 on a chip. |
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02/24/06 |
| Message Coordinator. Lessons from early development. |
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11/20/05 |
| The Multics Scheduler. Three generations of scheduling algorithms. |
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03/30/06 |
| Cryptic Messages from Antiquity. PL/I error messages remembered. |
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11/22/05 |
| Multics SNOBOL. Multics SNOBOL and the Missing END Statement. |
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11/22/05 |
| Multo ante natus eram. A date-related crash in 1995. |
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11/20/05 |
| The New Storage System. 1975 project to replace the file storage system. |
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04/03/06 |
| Visiting Project MAC. 1973 visit to Cambridge. |
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04/02/07 |
| The Palyn Report. Marketing politics. |
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03/06/07 |
| Phase One. The first words of Multics. |
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11/20/05 |
| Picnics. Good times in the summer. |
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01/07/08 |
| Printer Software. Listings and crash dumps. |
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01/07/08 |
| The who command. The Multics who command. |
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11/20/05 |
| An Obfuscated PL/I Program. Try to guess what this PL/I program does. |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics REDUCE. Symbolic algebra and particle physics by Rainer Schöpf. |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics Reunion and Dinner, June 2004. Events honoring Corby on 19 June 2004. |
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01/06/08 |
| Corbató Fellowship. Graduate Fellowship honoring Corby. |
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03/29/07 |
| Visiting CISL. Training the flying squad. |
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11/20/05 |
| Snow Joke. A message in the snow. |
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11/20/05 |
| Marketing Item. Teaching salesmen to consider Multics. |
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11/20/05 |
| Marketing Successes. 1970s articles. |
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11/20/05 |
| Publicity Photos. More 1970s articles. |
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11/20/05 |
| Honeywell User News. The first Multics sale in Europe and more. |
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01/16/07 |
| Installing USL. Crayfish and hurricanes. |
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01/16/07 |
| Flower. A never shipped Multics CPU. |
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11/20/05 |
| Using Ring 5. Protecting a source control database. |
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11/20/05 |
| Security. How the Air Force broke Multics security. |
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12/07/07 |
| The Origin of the Shell. RUNCOM and its progeny. |
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11/20/05 |
| Tech Square. Where we worked |
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12/04/05 |
| Telefunken TR440. Interesting German machine. |
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11/20/05 |
| Home Terminals. Forty years of logging in from home. |
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02/10/07 |
| Timing Channels. Covert channels and the star property. |
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01/13/06 |
| The Louisiana State Trooper Story. Another marketing legend. |
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11/20/05 |
| THVV Multics Bio. What Tom worked on. |
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01/16/07 |
| Unix and Multics. Our famous child. |
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11/20/05 |
| Development Documents. Internal documents produced during system development |
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02/25/06 |
| Multics Design Notebook, Section I: Introduction. Very early design documents. |
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11/20/05 |
| Multics System Programmer's Manual Table of Contents |
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03/20/08 |
| MSPM BA.1 MSPM - General Information. Early 1960s design for Multics. |
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11/20/05 |
| MSPM BA.2 Summary of Multics technical policy. Key early decisions. |
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11/20/05 |
| MSPM BA.3.00 Documentation Conventions. Rules for MSPM |
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11/20/05 |
| MSPM BB.2 System Module Interfaces (PL/I Subset for System Programming) |
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11/20/05 |
| MSPM BB.2.01 EPL Subset for System Programming. Definition of REPL. |
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11/20/05 |
| MSPM BB.3.01 Multics Standard Magnetic Tape Format |
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11/20/05 |
| MSPM BX.1.00 Multics Command Language. Language implemented by the shell. |
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11/20/05 |
| Index to MTBs. Multics Technical Bulletins |
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03/28/06 |
| AG91 TOC. Table of Contents of the Multics Programmer's manual: Reference Guide. |
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11/20/05 |
| AW17 Commands and Active Functions. List of Multics commands |
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11/20/05 |
| Segment Name Suffixes. List of legal segment name suffixes. |
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11/20/05 |
| Rules for the Multics Change Review Board. MAB-048 |
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11/20/05 |
| Source Code. Index to source code modules on this site. |
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11/20/05 |
| activate.pl1. PL/I source of File system module activate.pl1 |
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11/20/05 |
| bigletter_.pl1. PL/I source of utility module used in printer head page. |
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11/20/05 |
| bound-info-rtns.s.archive. PL/I source of 12 Multics user ring programs. |
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11/20/05 |
| calendar.pl1. PL/I source of user command calendar.pl1 |
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11/20/05 |
| dialup_.pl1. PL/I source of answering service module dialup_.pl1 |
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11/20/05 |
| fim.alm. ALM source file for the Fault Interceptor Module. |
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11/20/05 |
| link_snap.pl1. PL/I source of dynamic linker. |
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11/20/05 |
| pxss.alm. ALM source of Multics scheduler. |
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11/20/05 |
| vtoc_man.pl1. PL/I source of the Multics storage system VTOC manager. |
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11/20/05 |
| source-index.pl1. Index to Multics source files by library and bound segment. |
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