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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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S2CID 6434322. "Multics Execution Environment". Multicians.org. Retrieved 9 October 2016. Organick, Elliott I. (1972). The Multics System: An Examination...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Space Travel (video game) (category Multics software)
Bell Labs on the Multics operating system on a GE 645 mainframe. During his work, Thompson developed Space Travel on the system. Multics was a collaborative...
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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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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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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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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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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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GE's ongoing Multics operating system project. The design and features of Multics greatly influenced the Unix operating system. Multics influenced many...
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Dynamic linker (section Multics)
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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