Multics: the first seven years

  • Authors:
  • F. J. Corbató;J. H. Saltzer;C. T. Clingen

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

In 1964, following implementation of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) serious planning began on the development of a new computer system specifically organized as a prototype of a computer utility. The plans and aspirations for this system, called Multics (for Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), were described in a set of six papers presented at the 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference. The development of the system was undertaken as a cooperative effort involving the Bell Telephone Laboratories (from 1965 to 1969), the computer department of the General Electric Company, and Project MAC of M.I.T.