that Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes." Initial planning and development for Multics started...
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Hierarchical file system (section Multics)
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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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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TYPSET and RUNOFF (section Multics)
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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History of Unix (section Multics)
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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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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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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Position-independent code (section Multics)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Robert Morris (cryptographer) (category Multics people)
compiler called EPL for the Multics project. The pair also contributed a version of runoff text-formatting program for Multics. Morris's contributions to...
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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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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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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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Peter G. Neumann (category Multics people)
Neumann (born 1932) is a computer-science researcher who worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s. He edits the RISKS Digest columns for ACM...
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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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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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introducing regular expressions. Thompson rewrote QED in BCPL for Multics. The Multics version was ported to the GE-600 system used at Bell Labs in the...
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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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S2CID 6434322. "Multics Execution Environment". Multicians.org. Retrieved 9 October 2016. Organick, Elliott I. (1972). The Multics System: An Examination...
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Original author(s) Dan Murphy Initial release 1962/63 Operating system OS/8, ITS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX-11, OpenVMS, Multics Type Text editor...
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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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