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-The
Multics operating
system arose from MIT Project MAC
's desire
-to build an advanced mainframe timesharing system
to follow its successful
-. The
project began in 1964 and
was
-
-
GE was selected as the hardware vendor and Bell
-
-US Department of Defense
-Advanced Research Projects Agency
.
Multics took longer than
-
-
-
-. For more information,
-see [http://www.multicians.org]
.
+[
Multics | http://www.multicians.org] was a MainFrame timesharing OperatingSystem designed and implemented at [MIT].
+
+Desire for such a
system arose from [
MIT]
's project MAC
to follow its successful CTSS system on the IBM 7094, and so the [Multics]
project began in 1964. It
was described in a set of six papers at the 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference. GE was selected as the hardware vendor and Bell Telephone Laboratories also joined the development team. [
MIT]
's research was largely funded by the [DARPA]
.
+
+[
Multics]
took longer than planned to become operational, and Bell dropped out of the project in 1969, about the time MIT started offering service to users. [
Multics]
continued to evolve and spread to additional sites for the next 16 years as a Honeywell commercial product offering.
