[TUHS] primary sources for the 1966 Multics ASCII cutover as the first "Flag Day"?

[Tom Perrine]

There are still a few Multics sites running - and semi-active community
development.

Courtesy of an old fork of SIMH that became a very full fledged DPS8/6800
simulator. I was running MR11 something on a Pi for a while, and then in
GCP.

Brought back old times - my second computer - after GCOS.

*sigh*

I think there may also be a reference to Flag Day in the original printed
Hacker's Dictionary, and I think in the Jargon file from which it was
derived? I don't have any old copies of either around to check

--tep


On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Interestingly, that phrasing comes directly from morticians.org.
> >
> > People are dying to find out what's on that site....
> >
> > (Ok, sorry; clearly Rich typo'ed "multicians.org" here, but I couldn't
> resist.)
>
> I thought it was a purposeful choice to go from multicians to
> morticians after Multics had been retired for long enough :) With
> technical people, you never know...
>
> Warner
>
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