Multics revealed
Posted by admin, Wed Nov 14 11:53:47 UTC 2007
Open-source history: See Multics source code | Underexposed – CNET News.com
In a move more likely to appeal to technology historians than coders, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published the source code of Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), a precursor to the Unix operating system begun as a research project at the university in 1965.
Many people probably haven’t even heard of Multics. At the time I attended the University of Calgary, Multics was the “Big Iron” system where we learned about designing secure operating systems. UofC had the second largest Multics installation in the world, second only to the DoD in the US. It was also where we learned PL/1. Ah, the good old days.