Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!egrunix!nucleus!jeff From: jeff@nucleus.UUCP (Jeff Marraccini) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Multics (was Re: getcwd() and friends.) Message-ID: <5428@nucleus.UUCP> Date: 2 May 89 22:24:57 GMT References: <4525@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <427@logicon.arpa> <1234@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@nucleus.UUCP (Jeff Marraccini, Systems) Followup-To: poster Organization: The Nucleus Public Access Unix, Clarkston, MI Lines: 16 In article <4525@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes: >By the way, are there any Multics sites still in operation out there? Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan is running a Multics MR12.2 system. I still log in occasionally :-) It's a nice system, but it tends to bog down. There are plans to eliminate it to recover floorspace for a newer system. Lately users have been migrating over to VMS and Unix systems, but the Multics still has the best PL/1 compiler on campus and some of the software on it still isn't available for any other machine. The new Multics releases even support Unix style pipes and file redirections from the command processor! Jeff -- Jeff Marraccini jeff@nucleus.UUCP ...!!sharkey!nucleus!jeff nucleus: Public access Unix, 313/623-6309, 1200/2400bps, no fee