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New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:52PM   Printer-friendly
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):

"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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  • (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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