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Honeywell 6180 at MIT, 1974 Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is a mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. Multics began as a research project and was an important influence on operating system development. The system became a commercial product sold by Honeywell to education, government, and industry. This web site describes the hardware, software, and people that made the system the best thing of its kind for many years.

Professor Corbató sent a letter to all Multicians on the occasion of the last system's shutdown on 10/31/2000.


General Information and FAQ
General information about Multics and info on other online resources. (20K, 10/31/00)
Multicians
Multics programmers People who contributed to Multics, with home page and mail links. 1498 names, 525 mail addresses, 119 home pages. (171K, 03/02/02) updated Add or update your entry.
Features
More detail on features of Multics. (36K, 3 pictures, 10/15/00)
History
The history of Multics, from 1963 to the present. (35K, 3 images, 10/08/01)
Bibliography
References to published information on Multics. 376 entries. (114K, 11/15/01)
Technical Papers
The system was the subject of over 300 technical publications. A selection of technical papers about Multics is available online. (11K, 17 papers, 10/09/01)
Chronology
Chronological list of dates in the history of Multics. (28K, 01/14/01)
Multics Sites
Site Listing
Multics sites. (20K, 10/08/01)
Site Timeline
Chart showing when sites were installed and uninstalled. (11K, 08/29/01)
Glossary
An encyclopedic, cross-referenced dictionary of Multics terms, concepts, and jargon, with contributions by many Multicians. (27 files, 757 entries, 10/08/01)
A| B| C| D| E| F| G| H| I| J| K| L| M| N| O| P| Q| R| S| T| U| V| W| X| Y| Z| Index
Stories
Stories and reminiscences about Multics history and its builders. (34 files, 53 pictures, 02/27/02)
Humor
Jokes about Multics. (23K, 1 picture, 05/01/01)
Development documents
The documents we produced while building Multics. (11K, 10/10/01)
A few samples from these hundreds of documents are online:
Program source
Samples of Multics source code in PL/I and ALM. (6K, 8 files, 10/29/99)
Index to the Multics source files (05/23/01, 444K, 5839 entries).
Other Web Sites
Links to other Internet sites of interest to Multicians (19K, 09/25/01)

Site Histories

Stories and pictures about Multics sites past and present. Eventually we should have one for each site.

Usenet News

The newsgroup alt.os.multics is active and discusses Multics features and history, influence on other systems, Multicians, and the usual newsgroup noise.


Editor: thvv@multicians.org