So! You want to use Multics? (1979) [pdf]

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Fun manual, and very surprising to see the ascii art at page 14… truly a relic from another time

I want to use Multics - but I'm stuck with Unix! (Well, BSD and Linux I guess...)

Also: PL/I may not have been beautiful, but at least it had a safe memory model!

Run your own Multics:

https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page

There are also several public access Multics systems up and running.

I've had it running in an emulator for a while, but not natively sadly.

It would be fun to have an FPGA implementation of the hardware, and/or a port of the system to modern (or relatively modern) processors that are generally available (perhaps some x86 processors that support segmentation.)

An FPGA implementation is underway.

The X86 segmentation facility resembles Multics segments in name only.

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