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	Wikipedia - Multics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading.
	Multicians.org - http://www.multicians.org/ Multics was the acronym for "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service" - a mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used up until 2000. Although this was the immediate forerunner of the Unix operating system, it was also in many ways its antithesis.
	The Creation of the Unix Operating System - http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ The history of the development of Unix at Bell Labs, and how Multics was an important stepping stone.
	Mainz Multics - http://www.vaxman.de/historic_computers/multics/multics.html The history and technical details of the DPS8 installation at the University of Mainz, Germany. Photo gallery of Multics hardware components.
	Multics Source Repository - http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics_Internet_Server/Multics_sources.html Complete Source for MR12.5 contributed by Bull HN and MIT.

	Seattle Weekly: Multics and Mr. Rogers - http://www.seattleweekly.com/2000-11-22/news/multics-and-mr-rogers/ Marking the demise of the Multics OS and drawing parallels with the PBS show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."
	Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf The USAF's analysis into potential weaknesses and strengths of the Multics OS.
	Honeywell DPS8 - http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/honeywell-DPS8.html Brief technical information on the DPS8 platform used to run the Multics OS, plus links.
	Slashdot: The Last Multics System Decommissioned - http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml The announcement of the closure of the last Multics system and a brief discussion as the significance of the Operating System.
	The Life and Times of the Multics OS - http://www.geocities.com/steelalloy/multics.htm A short essay exploring the possibilities of porting the OS to a modern hardware environment

	Risks Digest: The End of the Multics Era - http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj4 Article by Peter G. Neumann on the decommissioning of the last Multics system at the Canadian Department of National Defence in October 2000.
	Multics Repository - ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languagues, plus papers and other documentation [ftp].
	Multics Home Page - http://www.mit.edu/afs/net/user/srz/www/multics.html Information on Multics, much of it from the newsgroup alt.os.multics.
	Multics Psalm - http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/multics_psalm.png A humorous prayer well-known to veteran Multicians. Scanned PNG file.
	Introduction to Multics - http://www.jinformation.com/multics/index.htm Providing Multics OS concepts and examples.

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