[Simh] Mulitics on SIMH ?

Paco Linux paco.linux at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 17:38:49 EDT 2008


Hi,

You have the (DOCKMASTER) tapes  here :
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/Honeywell/multics/tape/ and the contents
extracted : http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/Honeywell/multics/extracted/

Paco

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Andreas Davour <ante at update.uu.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Glynn Stanton wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Are there any chances that simh will ever emulate something like the
> > Honeywell 6180 or any of the other platforms that run multics ?
> >
> > I note that multics is now open source, so hopefully this OS will not
> slip
> > into obscurity.
> >
> > I did do a few quick googles, but only came up with one (seemingly dead)
> > surceforge project
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/h6180/
> > but hardly active.
>
> There are a few Multics projects, and you've found one of them. I saw
> some talk about in on alt.os.multics (I think) a while back but it has
> been very quiet lately. The problem with Multics was, if I remember
> correctly, that there is no load tape and there was no documentation for
> some important hardware needed for bootstrapping. A multician can
> probably give you better details. Try a.o.m maybe?
>
> /Andreas
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