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    that Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes." Initial planning and development for Multics started...
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    to implement the idea in the Multics operating system. Pouzin returned to his native France in 1965, and the first Multics shell was developed by Glenda...
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  • then moved the BCPL version to Multics when the IBM 7094 on which CTSS ran was being shut down. Documentation for the Multics version of RUNOFF described...
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  • computing, Multics provided the archive command – a basic archiver without compression – that descended from the CTSS command of the same name. Multics also...
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    645 mainframe computer was a development of the GE 635 for use in the Multics project. This was the first computer that implemented a configurable hardware...
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    an experimental time-sharing operating system called Multics for the GE-645 mainframe. Multics introduced many innovations, but also had many problems...
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    It was modeled after the Multics shell, developed in 1965 by American software engineer Glenda Schroeder. Schroeder's Multics shell was itself modeled...
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  • used by the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) and the Multics operating system. Multics was supported by virtual memory additions made in the GE 645...
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  • but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications...
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  • the Multics operating systems were tested for "potential use as a two-level (secret/top secret) system." The evaluation determined that while Multics was...
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  • segmented systems such as Burroughs MCP on the Burroughs B5000 (1961) and Multics (1964), and on paging systems such as IBM TSS/360 (1967), code was also...
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    Ls (category Multics commands)
    command appeared in the first version of AT&T UNIX, the name inherited from Multics and short for "list". ls is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since...
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  • Universities Joint Computer Centre, a large user of Multics requested the SWURCC team to produce a Multics version of ALGOL 68RS. A version for the Digital...
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  • The Multics Relational Data Store, or MRDS for short, was the first commercial relational database management system. It was written in PL/1 by Honeywell...
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    Retrieved March 9, 2012. Van Vleck, Thomas (ed.). "Multics Glossary – A — (active function)". Multics. Retrieved March 9, 2012. Varian, Melinda (April 1991)...
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  • : 290  Roff was a Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics, which was a descendant of RUNOFF for CTSS (the first computerized text-formatting...
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    known as MOO was widely available for early mainframe computers, Unix and Multics systems, among others. The numerical version of the game is usually played...
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  • Uniplexed, the rumored U in Unix (or Unics); as opposed to the multiplexed of Multics Uniplex (UK) Ltd., litigant in a European Court of Justice case regarding...
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    General Electric were developing Multics, a time-sharing operating system for the GE 645 mainframe computer. Multics featured several innovations, but...
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    items in the list separated by path separators. The path separator is > on Multics, / on Unix-like systems, and \ on MS-DOS 2.0 and later, Windows, and OS/2...
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    Fernando J. Corbató (category Multics people)
    second project, Multics, which was adopted by General Electric for its high-end computer systems (later acquired by Honeywell). Multics pioneered many...
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  • a US Air Force report in 1974 on the analysis of vulnerability in the Multics computer systems. The term "Trojan horse" was popularized by Ken Thompson...
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    Multics Emacs is an early implementation of the Emacs text editor. It was written in Maclisp by Bernard Greenberg at Honeywell's Cambridge Information...
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  • publishing it in the GY33-6003 manual. These manuals were used by the Multics group and other early implementers. The first compiler was delivered in...
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  • keep track of the file size in bytes. Some operating systems, such as Multics, Unix-like systems, CP/M, DOS, the classic Mac OS, and Windows, store text...
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    information. Multics today, under the DPS8M simulator, retains the capability of running GCOS jobs, both batch and timesharing, via the "Multics GCOS Environment...
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    difference between the design philosophies of Unix and its predecessor Multics. Multics developer Tom van Vleck recalls a discussion of this change with Unix...
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    itself. To simplify matters, plain text data streams, including files, on Multics used line feed (LF) alone as a line terminator.: 357  The tty driver would...
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  • the 6180, and supported Multics. Lower-end Level 66 and Level 68 processors were introduced in 1975; in the case of the Multics compatible 68/60, the key...
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    Ken Thompson (category Multics people)
    Bell Labs, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Multics operating system. While writing Multics, Thompson created the Bon programming language. He...
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