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Multics Emulator Availability
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Daiyu Hurst
Jun 22, 2015, 11:05:47 AM6/22/15
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Hi folks,
I'm you're all aware of PRIMOS's Multics heritage.
While a multiuser, public Multics is currently being tested,
you can take the emulator for a test drive in single-user mode
now if you'd like, if you have a 64-bit host system on which
to run it.
A binary built and operable under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit or
later can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVd1NjWERwLU9yRHM/view?usp=sharing
A binary built and operable under 64-bit Windows is available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVemdqNlJoRll4TGc/view?usp=sharing
On whatever drive you drop the contents of the ZIP file, you'll need to create a /dev/shm directory (that is, if you don't have Cygwin64 installed).
For the Windows version, use the enclosed run.bat to start the system.
For the Linux version, it's just
./dps8 start.ini
A re-write of the 128-bit integer math package is underway to permit
operation on 32-bit hosts.
Multician Dave Vinograd has written a short document on how you
can set up a Linux Virtual machine in which to run the Linux version
of the emulator, and you'll find that here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVVXdzR3N4LTZUbEU/view?usp=sharing
The fully-operational version of the emulator which
includes the FNP (Front-eNd Processor) doesn't function
properly under a late-model Windows networking stack,
as it needs to be able to do UDP broadcasts, which
it seems Microsoft removed in Windows 7 & on in their
inestimable wisdom.
So this is the reason for a Linux version and the use of a VM.
-dai
I'm you're all aware of PRIMOS's Multics heritage.
While a multiuser, public Multics is currently being tested,
you can take the emulator for a test drive in single-user mode
now if you'd like, if you have a 64-bit host system on which
to run it.
A binary built and operable under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit or
later can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVd1NjWERwLU9yRHM/view?usp=sharing
A binary built and operable under 64-bit Windows is available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVemdqNlJoRll4TGc/view?usp=sharing
On whatever drive you drop the contents of the ZIP file, you'll need to create a /dev/shm directory (that is, if you don't have Cygwin64 installed).
For the Windows version, use the enclosed run.bat to start the system.
For the Linux version, it's just
./dps8 start.ini
A re-write of the 128-bit integer math package is underway to permit
operation on 32-bit hosts.
Multician Dave Vinograd has written a short document on how you
can set up a Linux Virtual machine in which to run the Linux version
of the emulator, and you'll find that here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVVXdzR3N4LTZUbEU/view?usp=sharing
The fully-operational version of the emulator which
includes the FNP (Front-eNd Processor) doesn't function
properly under a late-model Windows networking stack,
as it needs to be able to do UDP broadcasts, which
it seems Microsoft removed in Windows 7 & on in their
inestimable wisdom.
So this is the reason for a Linux version and the use of a VM.
-dai
Dennis Boone
Jun 24, 2015, 6:01:27 PM6/24/15
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> While a multiuser, public Multics is currently being tested,
> you can take the emulator for a test drive in single-user mode
> now if you'd like, if you have a 64-bit host system on which
> to run it.
Dai,
> you can take the emulator for a test drive in single-user mode
> now if you'd like, if you have a 64-bit host system on which
> to run it.
Neat stuff! I saw several small things as I was playing with this
last night that clearly had influence on Prime, but of which I was
not aware. (I need to eat a Multics tutorial and some manuals.)
Is it expected that some commands ("shut" comes to mind) are missing
from the image? (Segment not found.)
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Daiyu Hurst
Jul 1, 2015, 12:14:21 PM7/1/15
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ame
to enter admin mode environment, then
shut
to shut down the system. That pre-Alpha version has issues that corrupt the filesystem, which is why the run.bat copies the filesystem disk container file each time. Due to this, persistence isn't available in this version.
I am downloading the Alpha 2.0 release candidate 1 version now. I am hoping for persistence.
The live system is achieving persistence, but it may be through Multics backup/restore.
Dennis Boone
Jul 1, 2015, 11:23:46 PM7/1/15
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> I am downloading the Alpha 2.0 release candidate 1 version now. I
> am hoping for persistence.
Is the download source public?
> am hoping for persistence.
Have you tried simh telnet console? I hit ctrl-c the other day and
killed dps8.
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