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New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:52PM   
from the refining-the-classics dept.

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MR12.6f was released on 04/02/2017. New features in this release can be found in the Software Release Bulletin (SRB):

• MR12.6f Software Release Bulletin

"Release 1.0 of the simulator is now available, along with Multics release 12.6f" - http://www.multicians.org/simulator.html
via
The Register

Seminal time-sharing OS Multics - the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service - has been resurrected in a new simulator.

As The Register reported in 2011, Multics' sprang from MIT's decision to eschew an IBM mainframe, buy one from GE instead and write an OS for the machine. The operating system's source code was released in 2007, when we noted Multics' place in history as one of the first OSes "...to introduce concepts such as a hierarchical file system and dynamic linking. It was also the first to use the modern standard of per-process stacks in the kernal, with a separate stack for each security ring."

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• MIT is like Microsoft MIT is like Microsoft (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @03:54PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @03:54PM (#538137)

  They are really good at coming up with innovative ideas, and then just letting them flounder into irrelevance.

• Re:MIT is like Microsoft (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @04:05PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @04:05PM (#538142)

  Seems like they followed through on radar... https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History/RadLab.html [mit.edu]

  At its peak in 1945, the Rad Lab employed 3500 people and was spending close to $4 million a month. It developed over 100 radar systems, and its designs resulted in $1.5 billion of radar production in industry. In the words of Karl Compton, the Rad Lab was "the greatest cooperative research establishment in the history of the world" (Saad, p.47). It is frequently said that, although the atomic bomb ended World War II, it was radar that won the war.

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• The odd thing about MICROS~1 The odd thing about MICROS~1 (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @06:52PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @06:52PM (#538239)

  Redmond reuses other folks' ideas--but they first strip out all the good stuff.

  Unix: (Unix time starts in 1970) - Has proper permissions
  Linux 1.0: Released 1994 - Reused Unix permissions

  NT: Released 1993 - Lousy permissions
  Windoze 95 - No permissions at all

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  • Re:The odd thing about MICROS~1 Re:The odd thing about MICROS~1 (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:37PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:37PM (#538257)

    NT and 32-bit 9x were two separate lines of technology. It's not fair to say 95 was a "sequel" to NT.

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    • Re:The odd thing about MICROS~1 (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:40PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:40PM (#538262)

      Er, *16-/32-bit 9x. You know what I mean :P

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    • ''a sequel'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @08:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @08:15PM (#538303)

      not fair to say

      Looking at what I actually said, that does not included Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

      It does, however, include the Post part and that's my gripe: Older but not wiser.

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