History of MULTICS
Six papers outlining the Multics proposal were submitted to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1965 for an overview of the requirements. Basically, it was a collaborative effort involving Bell Labs, General Electric, and M.I.T. Bell Labs left in 1969, and Honeywell (now Bull) acquired GE’s computer division, which included Multics, in 1970. Professor Fernando J. Corbato launched MIT’s Multics research program in the year of 1964 at MIT Project MAC, which subsequently evolved into the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as well. The MIT Information Processing Services organization began offering Multics as a campus-wide information service in 1969, catering to thousands of academic and administrative customers as per requirement. The renowned developers named Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie also contributed to Multics for overall growth.
What is MULTICS?
Initially, a notable early time-sharing operating system which is built on the idea of a single-level memory is called Multics (“MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service”). Many characteristics of Multics are designed to guarantee high availability, enabling a computing utility like those of telephone and power utilities as per requirement. From 1965 to 2000, the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (Multics) operating system was utilized on the important mainframes for time-sharing purposes. Multics had a significant impact on the evolution of operating systems and started out as a research effort to verify the stages of systems. The system was turned into a product that Honeywell offered to the public sector, private sector, and education for overall benefit.