re: #139 Anymouse 🌹

[asking wife: Do you know what Multics is and did it run on PDP-10’s? wife: Never heard of it.] (She was a software engineer who worked at Digital Equipment in Colorado Springs. When I married her she owned a working PDP-8 and a PDP-11.)

Courtesy of Wikipedia:

In 1964, Multics was developed initially for the GE-645 mainframe, a 36-bit system. GE’s computer business, including Multics, was taken over by Honeywell in 1970; around 1973, Multics was supported on the Honeywell 6180 machines, which included security improvements including hardware support for protection rings.

Bell Labs pulled out of the project in 1969; some of the people who had worked on it there went on to create the Unix system. Multics development continued at MIT and General Electric.

Yep. Mainframe stuff that was much nicer in many ways than the more popular IBM’s & their various weird OS’s.

Which PDP-11 did she have? I keep lusting for a 4mb 11/93 to run BSD 2.11 on but the cost of that is … prohibitive, shall we say?