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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • a US Air Force report in 1974 on the analysis of vulnerability in the Multics computer systems. It was made popular by Ken Thompson in his 1983 Turing...
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    Ls (category Multics commands)
    first version of AT&T UNIX, the name inherited from a similar command in Multics also named 'ls', short for the word "list". ls is part of the X/Open Portability...
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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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    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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    S2CID 6434322. "Multics Execution Environment". Multicians.org. Retrieved 9 October 2016. Organick, Elliott I. (1972). The Multics System: An Examination...
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  • DBMS and RAD MS .Net IDE). IBM Business System 12 IBM IS1 IBM PRTV (ISBL) Multics Relational Data Store Comparison of object–relational database management...
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    Thesis, 1973. "40 years of Multics, 1969-2009", an interview with Professor Fernando J. Corbató on the history of Multics and origins of time-sharing...
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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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    levels. Multics was an operating system designed specifically for a special CPU architecture (which in turn was designed specifically for Multics), and...
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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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  • Echo (command) (category Multics commands)
    pipeline. The command is available in the following operating systems: Multics TSC FLEX MetaComCo TRIPOS Zilog Z80-RIO Microware OS-9 DOS Acorn Computers...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • rapid ... physically compatible with the IBM 2316 Disk Pack "Multics history". "Multics features". Open source emulator for the GE Large Systems / Honeywell...
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    Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System In 1964, for the Multics operating system, Louis Pouzin conceived the idea of "using commands somehow...
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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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    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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  • the paging hardware. The Multics operating system is probably the best known system implementing segmented memory. Multics segments are subdivisions...
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  • where specific reentrant modules are loaded at system startup time. In the Multics operating system all files, including executables, are segments. A call...
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    functionality called KRunner. It is accessible via the same key binds. The Multics shell includes a run command to run a command in an isolated environment...
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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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    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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