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restorante Oct 26

@whitequark

Perhaps you will find this interesting.

https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page#Multics_Documentation

#Multics

@david_chisnall @coder

Multics Wiki

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restorante Oct 25

@toomanysecrets

'branch' is something new to me, since I had never used Multics before.

If a segment is something to hold a program and data into a single place. Then 'branch segment-name' is running segment-name program and opening the respective data in the segment.

It is still confusing to me. Never met such concept before.

Edit: Glenda Schroeder, curious whether she had something to do with Glenda of the Plan9.

About segment, now I understand, it is actually just 'file'. The file can be data or program. Multics also has directory as well.

#Multics #Unix #Plan9

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Martin Bishop Oct 25

For text editing, #Multics provided two editors, edm and qed; Thompson wrote the first version of ed for #Unix by simplifying the Multics qed editor. The command ‘runcom’ allowed a user to execute a sequence of commands from a file (an ASCII text segment). While these were not explicitly referred to as "scripts", they effectively automated command execution and inspired shell scripting in Unix.
Via @unix_byte

Martin Bishop Oct 25

The 1969 Multics Condensed Guide shows that #Multics already incorporated a number of features foundational to the development of #Unix. The Multics command interpreter was designed by Louis Pouzin and Glenda Schroeder; a key innovation was that the command interpreter operated as a user-level program, separate from the kernel (Pouzin is credited with coining the term “shell” ca. 1964–65).

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The Turtle Oct 16

@catsalad mention Multics or anything PDP and they'll probably show up.

If we go with What Multics Calls Things as a guide to what the name would have been in an alternative history, it is a "search list".

The mind boggles as to what we would have got with an IBM heritage.

"Authorized Ordered Command Location Facility Set" or some such.

And they'd have made it a set, too. No duplicates. (-:

#Unix #PATH #IBM #Multics

Thomas Fricke (he/his)Jun 21

Before we had an #LLM there was #eliza

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/eliza-reanimated/

It runs on #CTSS which is the predecessor of #Multics which was before #Unix

Created by #josephweizenbaum in the mid 1960s. Two generations ago. To show only how easy it is to trick people into believing that computers show kind of intelligence.

ELIZA Reanimated

The last time we checked in with the ELIZA archeology project, they had unearthed the earliest known copy of the code for the infamous computer psychiatrist written in MAD-SLIP. After a lot of work…

Hackaday

lars May 30

Mal wieder ein etwas besserer #Golem #BesserWissen #Podcast zur Geschichte und Entwicklung von #Unix; inspiriert von Vorläufer #Multics sowie die modernen Nachfahren #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD und #MacOS sowie am Rande auch dessen Neuinterpretation #Linux.

"Podcast Besser Wissen: Von Multics zu Unix"
https://www.golem.de/news/podcast-besser-wissen-von-multics-zu-unix-2505-196557.html

#Betriebssystem