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• Dps8m: A simulator for the Multics dps-8/m mainframe

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dps8m/
  Project to create a simulator for the Honeywell DPS8-M mainframe which will run Mulrics.

• 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.

• 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. Photo gallery of Multics hardware components.

• 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.

• 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.

• Multics Psalm

  http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png
  A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file.

• Multics Repository

  ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html
  A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languages, plus papers and other documentation [ftp].

• Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis

  http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf
  The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS.

• Multics Source Repository

  http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics_Internet_Server/Multics_sources.html
  Complete Source for MR12.5 contributed by Bull HN and MIT.

• 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.

• Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers

  http://www.seattleweekly.com/2000-11-22/news/multics-and-mr-rogers/
  Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."

• Slashdot: The Last Multics System Decommissioned

  http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml
  The announcement of the closure of the last Multics system and a brief discussion as the significance of the Operating System.

• 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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