Web site: www.multicians.org
Origin: USA
Category: Workstation
Desktop environment: CLI
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Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) – a mainframe time-sharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. Multics began as a research project and was an important influence on operating system development. The system became a commercial product sold by Honeywell to education, government, and industry.
Multics was a prototype of a Computer Utility, providing secure computing to remote users at their terminals. Multicians still miss the elegant, consistent, and powerful programming environment; some Multics features are only now being added to contemporary systems.
Multics development began at MIT, GE and Bell Labs in 1966, using MIT’s CTSS as the source repository.
