Historic Multics Operating System Simulator Achieves Milestone
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Summary
Harry Reed and Charles Anthony achieved a significant milestone by successfully booting the Multics MR 12.5 software on a hardware simulator, performing administrative tasks, and executing a PL/I program. The latest version of the Multics software for the simulator is MR 12.8, released in August 2023. Multics, a historic mainframe operating system, influenced later computer operating systems.
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Their hardware simulator booted Multics MR 12.5 software, came to operator command level, entered admin mode, created a small PL/I program, compiled and executed it, and shut down.
Multics was a mainframe time-sharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. It was a major influence on subsequent computer operating systems.
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