Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:10527 comp.os.misc:691
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!usl!usl-pc!jpd
From: jpd@usl-pc.usl.edu (DugalJP)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Does anyone still use Multics??
Message-ID: <136@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 88 20:44:03 GMT
References: <6392@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <9062@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: jpd@usl-pc.UUCP (DugalJP)
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Lines: 20

In article <9062@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>>Are there any sites out there that run Multics??  Is there any source code 
>
>I think MULTICS is still in use and available (for a stiff fee) from
>Honeywell.  It was written primarily in PL/I.

Multics is indeed still in use.  Our two-processor L68/80 Multics is over
13 years old now, but stuck at release MR10.2 forever.  Honeywell Bull
dropped plans to build new faster hardware to support Multics, and was
involved with the University of Calgary in investigating moving key
systems software to Unix, as a migration path.  I sure would love to
have vfile_ running under Unix!  

-- James

-- 
-- James Dugal,	N5KNX		USENET: ...!{dalsqnt,killer}!usl!jpd
Associate Director		Internet: jpd@usl.edu
Computing Center		US Mail: PO Box 42770  Lafayette, LA  70504
University of Southwestern LA.	Tel. 318-231-6417	U.S.A.