Does anyone still use Multics??

[Ray Smith]

In article <6392 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> steve at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
>
>	With the recent discussions about old GE systems and where GECOS came 
>from, I started to wonder if anyone still used Multics on any systems.  Are
>there any sites out there that run Multics??

   Yep! There are a couple of systems that I am aware of within the DoD.
They love the multi-level security.

>Is there any source code available for it (since I'm asking).

   All of the source was available on the systems I worked on.

> I presume it would have been written in something like FORTRAN.

   Nah! As someone else pointed out, it was written primarily in PL/1.

Also as someone else said, there are lots of neat features available in
Multics. In addition to B2 level security there are many tools to help
developers. If you want more details, let me know and I'll dust off my
manuals.

The main problem with MULTICS appears to be two-fold. 1) It is pretty much
tied to the hardware and 2) Honeywell couldn't market its way out of a
paper bag.

-Ray

P.S. Does anyone know of something in the UNIX world similiar to MULTICS'
"forum"???
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