[SCC_Active_Members] CICS and Multics

Van Snyder van.snyder at jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Jul 15 12:47:52 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:36 -0600, Grady Booch wrote:

> From the earliest days of working on software preservation with this
> group, I'd collected several boxes of punched cards constituting the
> Multics kernel, and I also have (on microfiche) the source code for an
> early early version of IBM's CICS. 

A Multics kernel! Fantastic!  From my position of meager knowledge, it
seems that the Pentium is a better Multics platform than the Honeywell
6080 was (not least that one need not have a plumber to keep it going).
Any hope of getting the rest of it?

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