- Multicians.org - http://www.multicians.org/
Multics was the acronym for "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service" - a mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used up until 2000. Although this was the immediate forerunner of the Unix operating system, it was also in many ways its antithesis.
- Risks Digest: The End of the Multics Era - http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4
Article by Peter G. Neumann on the decommissioning of the last Multics system at the Canadian Department of National Defence in October 2000.
- Multics Repository - ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html
A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languagues, plus papers and other documentation [ftp].
- Mainz Multics - http://www.vaxman.de/historic_computers/multics/multics.html
The history and technical details of the DPS8 installation at the University of Mainz, Germany. Site includes a photo gallery of Multics hardware components.
- Cardiff Multics - http://www.dsds.demon.co.uk/comp/multics.htm
A brief history and some photographs of the system at the University of Wales.
- Multics Home Page - http://www.mit.edu/afs/net/user/srz/www/multics.html
Information on Multics, much of it from the newsgroup alt.os.multics.
- Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers - http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0047/kiss-gunn.shtml
Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."
- Honeywell DPS8 - http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/honeywell-DPS8.html
Brief technical information on the DPS8 platform used to run the Multics OS, plus links.
- Multics Psalm - http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png
A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file.
- Wikipedia - Multics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading.
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