@whitequark

Perhaps you will find this interesting.

https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page#Multics_Documentation

#Multics

@david_chisnall @coder

@toomanysecrets

'branch' is something new to me, since I had never used Multics before.

If a segment is something to hold a program and data into a single place. Then 'branch segment-name' is running segment-name program and opening the respective data in the segment.

It is still confusing to me. Never met such concept before.

Edit: Glenda Schroeder, curious whether she had something to do with Glenda of the Plan9.

About segment, now I understand, it is actually just 'file'. The file can be data or program. Multics also has directory as well.

#Multics #Unix #Plan9

For text editing, #Multics provided two editors, edm and qed; Thompson wrote the first version of ed for #Unix by simplifying the Multics qed editor. The command ‘runcom’ allowed a user to execute a sequence of commands from a file (an ASCII text segment). While these were not explicitly referred to as "scripts", they effectively automated command execution and inspired shell scripting in Unix.
Via @unix_byte

The 1969 Multics Condensed Guide shows that #Multics already incorporated a number of features foundational to the development of #Unix. The Multics command interpreter was designed by Louis Pouzin and Glenda Schroeder; a key innovation was that the command interpreter operated as a user-level program, separate from the kernel (Pouzin is credited with coining the term “shell” ca. 1964–65).

@catsalad mention Multics or anything PDP and they'll probably show up.

#multics
#pdp-6
#dec

@cks @simontatham

If we go with What Multics Calls Things as a guide to what the name would have been in an alternative history, it is a "search list".

The mind boggles as to what we would have got with an IBM heritage.

"Authorized Ordered Command Location Facility Set" or some such.

And they'd have made it a set, too. No duplicates. (-:

#Unix #PATH #IBM #Multics

Before we had an #LLM there was #eliza

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/eliza-reanimated/

It runs on #CTSS which is the predecessor of #Multics which was before #Unix

Created by #josephweizenbaum in the mid 1960s. Two generations ago. To show only how easy it is to trick people into believing that computers show kind of intelligence.

Mal wieder ein etwas besserer #Golem #BesserWissen #Podcast zur Geschichte und Entwicklung von #Unix; inspiriert von Vorläufer #Multics sowie die modernen Nachfahren #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD und #MacOS sowie am Rande auch dessen Neuinterpretation #Linux.

"Podcast Besser Wissen: Von Multics zu Unix"
https://www.golem.de/news/podcast-besser-wissen-von-multics-zu-unix-2505-196557.html

#Betriebssystem

Sic transit gloria #Multics

@Timberwolf Do you know the specific #computer #language and #dialect that the #first #version of #Space #Travel ( #1969 ) was written in on #Multics? #UNICS #UNIX #history #computers #computing #operating #system

#2025 will be the year of the #MulticsDesktop.

#Multics #Unix #Linux #LinuxDesktop

El 10 de diciembre de 1928, nació el ingeniero eléctrico y programador estadunidense Joseph “Joe” F. Ossanna, conocido por su trabajo con el sistema operativo Unix y aplicaciones de software de Bell Labs y participó en el diseño de Multics. Falleció a los 48 años el 28 de noviembre de 1977
#retrocomputingmx #joeossanna #Unix #Multics

Odra 1305 - 1971
"Polish third-generation computer of the Odra series, mass-produced since 1973 at Zakłady Elektroniczne Elwro in Wrocław; the prototype computer was created in 1971"

OS: GEORGE 3 : wiki
OS: GEORGE 3 : manual

#old #history #operatingsystems #polish #poland #computers #oldbytes #technology #ICL1900 #george3 #Copy-On-Write #CoW #Multics #TTL #Hutmen #Wroclaw #PKP

El 30 de octubre del 2000, se apagan las últimas instalaciones de los ordenadores remanentes en Halifax, con el sistema de tiempo compartido Multics, que influenciará a todos los modernos SO en el mundo, desde microcomputadores hasta mainframes
#retrocomputingmx #Multics

[Перевод] Из истории технологий: откуда взялся Unix

Сегодня многие полагают, что «Unix» и «Linux» — это одно и то же. Но по состоянию на 2024 год с большинством дистрибутивов, которые мы причисляем к «Unix» и «Linux» ситуация почти так и обстоит. Но у Unix долгая история. Если у вас в распоряжении только известные сейчас системы Linux, то сложно размышлять о том «какова была ситуация на заре Unix», поскольку так много с тех пор изменилось.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/839924/

#timeweb_статьи_перевод #unix #linux #bell_labs #ОС #код #программирование #кен_томпсон #basic #multics

Via The Unix Heritage Society's mailing list, Dennis Ritchie's usenet post to alt.os.multics titled "BTL leaves Multics" starting:

I offer some memories about the withdrawal of Bell Labs from Multics and the start of Unix.

Tom Van Vleck Analiza el uso de las #terminales de computadora en los primigenios ambientes de programación de los sistemas operativos de tiempo compartido.
#Multics #CTSS #gopher
gopher://texto-plano.xyz/0/~peron/docs/terminales.txt

"Unix And Multics" [2019], Tom Van Vleck (https://www.multicians.org/unix.html).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315724

#Multics #Unix #BellLabs #OS #History #ComputerHistory #OperatingSystems

Ever wanted to see Multics Emacs live ?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=q0yfhZB7VpA

Emacs version 12.9 in a multics shell.

Pretty rare sight for me

#emacs #multics #unix #vintagecomputing