On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Kevin Monceaux <ke...@rawfeddogs.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote: > > > When Multics was officially released as free software a couple of > > years ago, there was a flurry of activity aimed at getting some sort > > of emulator up and running to run it. Did anything ever come of that > > or did folks just lose interest (or find out that the needed > > GE/Honeywell hardware was too poorly-documented to write an emulator > > of) > > I hadn't checked on Multics progress in quite a while. Yesterday I > discovered that the DPS-8/M emulator at: > > https://SourceForge.net/projects/dps8m/ > > is far enough along to boot Multics. I thought some folks on this list > might be interested in it. > > Using the files from the QuickStart_MR12.6d.zip archive I managed to boot > Multics yesterday. The README file in that archive describes how to boot > the system and sign on as Repair.SysAdmin, but not much else. I'd never > touched a Multics system before, and didn't have time yesterday to get to > know the system. Does anyone know of any Multics How-Tos, especially how > to > shut Multics down properly? > > > On the console: ESC (The ATTN key) logout * * (SHuts down the daemons) When it prompts (->) again, hit ESC to release the console. You should 6 or so messages about daemons logging out. When the messages stop: ESC shut If it asks if it's okay to shut down: y You should see messages, ending with 'bce>' (Boot Command Environment, the long lost ancestor of GRUB). ESC die y Depending on the startup script, you may then see the simh prompt 'simh>' q Multics today: http://ringzero.wikidot.com/ Multics FAQ <http://ringzero.wikidot.com/wiki:multics-faq> Multics Cheat Sheet <http://ringzero.wikidot.com/wiki:multics-cheat-sheet> Multicians <http://www.multicians.org/> -- Charles >
