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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.

Introduction to Multics - http://www.jinformation.com/multics/index.htm
Providing Multics OS concepts and examples.

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.

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.

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.

Multics Repository - ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/multics.html
A collection of applications written in PL/1, exec_com and other languages, plus papers and other documentation [ftp].

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.

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.

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.

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."

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 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.

Wikipedia - Multics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
A brief history and description of this operating system with links to further reading.

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