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So! You want to use Multics? (1979) [pdf]

• gattilorenz 4y ago
  Fun manual, and very surprising to see the ascii art at page 14… truly a relic from another time
• musicale 4y ago
  I want to use Multics - but I'm stuck with Unix! (Well, BSD and Linux I guess...) Also: PL/I may not have been beautiful, but at least it had a safe memory model!
  • unused0 4y ago
    Run your own Multics: https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page There are also several public access Multics systems up and running.
    • musicale 4y ago
      I've had it running in an emulator for a while, but not natively sadly. It would be fun to have an FPGA implementation of the hardware, and/or a port of the system to modern (or relatively modern) processors that are generally available (perhaps some x86 processors that support segmentation.)
      • unused0 4y ago
        An FPGA implementation is underway. The X86 segmentation facility resembles Multics segments in name only.