FAQ Multics General (short)

[Tom Van Vleck]

archive-name: multics/general
URL: //www.multicians.org/general.html

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information. Please post updates to alt.os.multics or mail
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Q) What is the purpose of this group?
A) This group is for the discussion of the Multics operating
system. Discussion sometimes strays to other topics of
interest to Multicians, e.g.
- Honeywell hardware architecture
- CTSS, DTSS and other ancestors
- Honeywell management mistakes and if-onlys
- PRIMOS, GCOS Timesharing, UNIX, and other cousins
and descendants
For discussions of the history of other operating
systems, try alt.folklore.computers or the groups
dedicated to these systems.

alt.os.multics is a public unmoderated newsgroup with an
estimated readership of thousands. If you have a comment
of limited interest, please use e-mail instead.
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Q) How can I view alt.os.multics via the web?
A) Go to http://www.google.com/ and click Groups,
then enter alt.os.multics and return. You may wish to sort by date.
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Q) What other sources are available on-line to find out more
about Multics?
A1) There is a large set of Multics Web pages available at
http://www.multicians.org/
including hypertext versions of the FAQ files, the 250K
Multics Glossary, papers, stories, and pictures of
Multicians and 6180s. There are 219 HTML pages
comprising over 1,000,000 lines and 374 graphic images.

Paul Green mirrors this information at Stratus at
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/tvv/multics.html

A2) There is a closed Yahoo Groups mailing list for Multicians.
It currently has 141 members.
Apply at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multicians/

A3) Al Kossow has a large collection of scanned Multics manuals
online at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/multics/

A4) The LinkedIn group "multicians" has been set up for Multicians
who use the LinkedIn social networking site.
It currently has 258 members.
To join it, send mail to the editor.

A5) There is a "fan page" for Multics on Facebook, open to
any Facebook user.
https://www.facebook.com/multicsfans
It currently has 221 fans.

This is the SHORT FAQ. The long FAQ is nine files and is
posted four times a year.