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[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.

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Last edited on Monday, June 7, 2004 4:57:32 am by AristotlePagaltzis

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