So I just read this
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/cranor/cranor.pdf
and it looks encouraging. Apparently NetBSD is using it. Does anyone
know if they are happy with it?
Has FreeBSD considered this?
Has anyone benchmarked FreeBSD against NetBSD to see which is faster
for VM stuff?
Greetings,
Multics, while not a 'massive' sales success in retrospect, was certainly not the failure commonly believed and wasn't treated as one in the press of the time - at least not until after the decision was made by Honeywell-Bull to phase out the the Multics (and CP-6) products to focus on GCOS - GCOS7/GCOS8 is still a major player today.
"Honeywell is having considerable — and surprising — success with the ultra-secure Multics operating system … Besides 3-5 systems within Honeywell, Multics has been installed or committed within Nippon Electric, Rome Air Development Center, USAF Data Services Center, and Ford." from mid-1970's industry press.
See also https://multicians.org/myths.html
We have about 120 members on BAN - including many original and new Multicians who make the project possible. We're always working on new things and projects - see "pmotd -a" when logged in for some of the most recent activity.
I'd be happy to answer any questions on BAN.AI if anyone has particular questions - or just ssh to dps8(a)m.trnsz.com - feel free to use the guest account. I don't want to take the list too off-topic. We have many exclusive features that I hope makes BAN.AI a 'special' (and loved) system, a lot more coming.
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https://ban.ai/multics
> From: jcs
> The real mystery is what it's running on. ... It's=20 probably a
> simulator but I've never heard of one for the H6000.
Per:
https://multicians.org/multics.htmlhttps://multicians.org/multics.html
"Harry Reed and Charles Anthony reached a major milestone on the Multics
simulator on Saturday 08 November, 2014. Their SIMH-based simulator booted
Multics MR 12.5, came to operator command level, entered admin mode, created a
small PL/I program, compiled and executed it, and shut down. Release 1.0 of
the simulator is now available."
Noel
> On 1 Sep 2018, at 19:18,Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com <mailto:imp@bsdimp.com>> wrote:
>
> I recall a more knowledgeable friend complaining about FreeBSD VM in 1994 or so.
>
> It used to be downright aweful.
>
That sounds like a GOOD thing: full of awe!
At least it wasn’t offal: decomposing animal flesh.
-Don
