that Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes." Initial planning and development for Multics started...
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Hierarchical file system (section Multics)
items in the list separated by path separators. The path separator is > on Multics, / on Unix-like systems, and \ on MS-DOS 2.0 and later, Windows, and OS/2...
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History of Unix (section Multics)
an experimental time-sharing operating system called Multics for the GE-645 mainframe. Multics introduced many innovations, but also had many problems...
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General Electric were developing Multics, a time-sharing operating system for the GE 645 mainframe computer. Multics featured several innovations, but...
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a US Air Force report in 1974 on the analysis of vulnerability in the Multics computer systems. It was made popular by Ken Thompson in his 1983 Turing...
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TYPSET and RUNOFF (section Multics)
then moved the BCPL version to Multics when the IBM 7094 on which CTSS ran was being shut down. Documentation for the Multics version of RUNOFF described...
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Ken Thompson (category Multics people)
Bell Labs, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Multics operating system. While writing Multics, Thompson created the Bon programming language. He...
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Retrieved March 9, 2012. Van Vleck, Thomas (ed.). "Multics Glossary – A — (active function)". Multics. Retrieved March 9, 2012. Varian, Melinda (April 1991)...
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Ls (category Multics commands)
first version of AT&T UNIX, the name inherited from a similar command in Multics also named 'ls', short for the word "list". ls is part of the X/Open Portability...
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Position-independent code (section Multics)
segmented systems such as Burroughs MCP on the Burroughs B5000 (1961) and Multics (1964), and on paging systems such as IBM TSS/360 (1967), code was also...
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