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URL: //www.multicians.org/chrono.html See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Please post updates to alt.os.multics or mail to <webmaster@multicians.org> 1959 John McCarthy proposes time-sharing in memo to Philip M. Morse, director of the MIT Computation Center. 1961 Burroughs B5000 (Algol, dual CPUs, segmentation) 11/61 MIT Computation Center running IBM 709. 4-user tape CTSS demonstrated. 05/62 Paper on CTSS presented at Spring Joint Computer Conference. 08/62 First Paper on Internet Concept by J. C. R. Licklider & Welden Clark, "On-Line Man Computer Communication". 09/62 BBN timesharing system operational on Digital Equipment PDP-1 11/62 MIT Computation Center running IBM 7090. CTSS runs on new hardware. 11/62 Project MAC suggested by J. C. R. Licklider. 12/62 Ferranti Atlas (paging) (12/7/62) 1963 Timesharing running at SDC on spare AN/FSQ-32 (funded by ARPA) 01/63 Project MAC proposal submitted to ARPA. 03/63 Project MAC authorized & funded by ARPA IPTO.($3 million contract) 05/63 Initial JOSS service on JOHNNIAC at RAND. 07/63 Project MAC summer study, using CTSS on Computation Center IBM 7090, attended by many computer scientists. 09/63 Project to establish a time-sharing system at Dartmouth begun by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. 10/63 Project MAC IBM 7090 (red machine) installed, later upgraded to 7094 II. 04/64 IBM announces System/360 (4/7/64) 05/64 DTSS brought up at Dartmouth on a GE-225/DATANET-30. (05/01/64, 4AM) 06/64 Corby's group moved to Tech Square 08/64 General Electric selected as supplier for MAC research machine, contract signed. 11/64 Bell Labs joins Multics project with MIT and GE 08/65 GE 635 delivered to Project MAC, 6.36 simulator running IBM announces TSS/360 11/65 Special Multics session at Fall Joint Computer Confence, 6 papers presented. 06/66 Flag Day (06/14/66) 01/67 GE 645 delivered to Project MAC 03/67 GE 635 removed from Project MAC milestone phase .5 (file system on 645 simulator) 05/67 MTS in service at Michigan 09/67 Digital Equipment PDP-10 announced TENEX begun at BBN 12/67 milestone phase 1 (single process boot on 645) 03/68 milestone A3 - 3 processes 04/68 IBM decommits TSS/360 05/68 IBM releases CP/67 version 1 to 8 sites 07/68 First Multics picnic 08/68 RADC GE-645 installed 10/68 Demonstrable Initial Multics milestone (8 users) 12/68 console sessions in 545 Tech Sq moved MAC 7094 to MIT IPC, building 39 01/69 Limited Initial Multics milestone (12 users) 01/69 Integrated mini-GIM & TTY DIM into system 04/69 Bell Labs drops out of Multics development Unix begun on PDP-7 at Bell Labs IBM un-decommits TSS/360 05/69 file system 2.0 06/69 milestone 3.0.10 07/69 Experimental MIT use of Multics (Cambridge Project) 10/69 MSS 4.0 - Multics public at MIT new PL1 compiler, new traffic control First ARPANet connection UCLA-SRI (10/29/69) 12/69 MSS 5.0 - DSU270's (10 MB disk) 03/70 MSS 6.0 - Revised command loop MSS 7.0 - page control rewrite DEC announces PDP-11 (3/28/70) 05/70 First Multics talk at GESHUA XI in Seattle (THVV) Honeywell buys GE computer division: the "merger" 06/70 MSS 8.0 - pre-paging and post-purging TENEX on the air (6/15/70) 08/70 MSS 9.0 - new Directory Control, User Control Multics installed on RADC machine 10/70 MSS 10.0 - new ttydim 11/70 MSS 11.0 - new init 12/70 MSS 12.0 - Support for DSU170's MSS 13.0 - Associative Memory fix Unix ported to PDP-11 at Bell Labs 1971 Software Factory on BCO 645 installed 01/71 MSS 14.0 - Moved processes from ring 32 to ring 4 01/71 Multics Symposium at MIT Jan 21-22 04/71 MSS 15.0 - retrofit. DTSS simulator using Dartmouth BASIC 05/71 IBM decommits TSS/360 again 09/71 MIT 645 Multics providing service on ARPANet (host #6) via GIMPSPIF.(RFC 0252) 1972 Paris 645 installed at Bull on Av. Gambetta 11/72 MIT 6180 delivered System M "6090" installed. 12/72 MSS 18.0. - ACL redo: CACLs eliminated 01/73 Multics and H6180 announcement at Boston Museum of Science (01/17/73) 07/73 CTSS turned off at MIT IPC (07/20/73) 11/73 AFDSC installed 12/73 MIT 6180 Multics connected to ARPANet (host #44) by ABSI. 12/73 Thompson and Ritchie present Unix paper at ACM SOSP 1974 CISL development machine installed 01/74 MSS 22.0 Ford installed 05/74 GM Corporate (GMISCA) installed 06/74 MR 1.0: EIS, BASIC, GCOS Simulator, DSS191 1975 RADC, BCO, System M upgraded to 6180s 01/75 MR 2.0: CPU cache, NPS, 1600bpi tape, TN1200 03/75 MR 2.1: iox_, probe, debug, On-line T&D 06/75 MR 2.2: Secure Mail 09/75 MR 3.0: MCS, Scheduler, RCP, COBOL-74, SORT 1975 Ford deinstalled 07/75 University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) installed 1976 DCC, USGS Reston installed 02/76 MSS 28.0: New storage system 03/76 MR 3.1: AIM, DTSS Simulator, HEALS, 4 FNPs 07/76 MR 4.0: New storage system, MRDS, MSU451 09/76 MR 4.0.1: Reconfiguration & Operator Interfaces 12/76 MR 5.0: 4MW SCUs 1977 Honeywell-MIT collaboration ends USGS Menlo Park and Denver installed Puerto Rican Highway Authority (PRHA) installed Industrial Nucleonics installed Apple Computer founded (01/03/77) 10/77 MR 6.0: tape, ESD, salvager, RJE, WORDPRO, 7 CPUs 1978 Ford installed again INRIA/Rocquencourt installed University of Grenoble installed University of Calgary (UC) installed 03/78 MR 6.1 09/78 MR 6.5: Video Terminals, DN6670, IBM 3780 11/78 Palyn Report presented to Honeywell management 12/78 MR 6.5a Oakland University (OU) installed 1979 INRA, Renault, Bell Canada installed 01/79 Unix setuid patent issued (01/16/79) 01/79 CNO installed (01/22/79) 03/79 MR 7.0: GTSS Sim, TP, MSU0500, Tape Archive, T&D 06/79 MR 7.0a: L6 Conc, 9 Track tape, Emacs, VIP7760 09/79 MR 7.0b: FIPS COBOL, WORDPRO Bristol & Bath (Avon) installed 1980 Stratus formed, many Multicians leave CISL NWGS Level 68 development system installed at US Naval War College. 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Prevision, EPSHOM, INSEE, IRT installed 03/80 MR 8.0: VIP7801/7804, IBM 3270, Process Preservation, ORION support, Bulk Store removed. 03/80 NSA Site N (Flagship) installed 03/27/80. 12/80 MR 8.2: MSU0500/501, T&D, COBOL, PL/I, FORTRAN, BOS 1981 VW (USA) installed in Honeywell space Arizona State University installed INSEE/Paris, CERAM, CICB, Culture, CICT, INRIA/Sophia installed 08/81 IBM PC announced (8/14/81) 09/81 St Johns installed 10/81 MR 9.0: DPS 8/70M CPUs, 8 FNPs, Executive Mail 12/81 Shutdown of Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1982 DND Halifax installed (dual L68); Bull Systeme X installed at Louveciennes (L68/DPS-8); CIRIL, CNET, INRIA/Rennes, Mainz installed; VW shut down, deal canceled by VW corporate 03/82 MR 9.1: T&D, HASP, Emacs, FORTRAN, Tape 06/82 STC installed 07/82 PMDC moved from Camelback 10/82 MR10.0: 4 IOMs, IOM Paged Mode, Dial-out, X.25, Forum 11/82 Cardiff (CJCC) installed. 1983 SNECMA, CICRP, INNPPP, Credit Lyonnais, SOZAWE, ONERA/CERT, SNECMA, ELF, LUT, Brunel installed USGS Menlo Park shut down 01/83 CNO gets 8/70M 03/83 UBCC installed 04/83 CCVR installed 06/83 Canadian DND (DDDS) installed 09/83 CISL moves from Tech Square to Cambridge Center 10/83 MR 10.1: Printers 901/1201, X.25 LAPB, Subsystem Utilities ACTC installed 1984 USGS Reston, Dir. Prevision, INSEE shut down DOCKMASTER installed 01/84 MR 10.2: Satellite 6M, LINUS, FIPS FORTRAN 02/84 ACTC becomes additional development site (2/3/84) 06/84 Special for DND: IO reconfiguration 1985 Almost 100 sites (Gintell ACM speech) ASU, STC, USGS Denver, INRA, Renault, ELF shut down ONERA/Paris installed DND-H upgraded to triple 8-70M 02/85 Flower canceled by Honeywell 06/85 Multics development capped by Honeywell MR 11.0: 32k Cache, FAMIS, Exec Forum, PC Support; 2741, 1050, and ARDS support removed 08/85 B2 Orange Book rating awarded to MR11.0+ by NCSC (08/29/85) 10/85 Black armbands at HLSUA Multics Company spin-off (based on Flower) proposed at HLSUA Initial study for NOS (Opus) with MOD-400 group 11/85 Spin-off dismissed by Honeywell 12/85 McDonnell Douglas Transport Aircraft installed 1986 EPSHOM, IRT, CERAM, INRIA/Sophia, Mainz, SOZAWE, Credit Lyonnais shut down SEP installed 01/86 Opus (NOS/VS3) IPR-0 review at Honeywell 05/86 CISL closed (5/22/86), Opus team to Honeywell Billerica 07/86 NWGS DPS 8/70(M) installed at US Naval War College. Level 68 moved to SDF, Moorestown NJ, and got SMS workstations. 12/86 MR 12.0: BOS eliminated, IMU, FIPS tape & disk, C compiler. 1987 Shutdown of SNECMA, CICT Bull Systeme X moved to Rocquencourt NWGS TTGL (Dam Neck VA) and TTGP (San Diego) sites installed. System M moved to DVCP 11/87 Bull takes over Honeywell computer division 12/87 Shutdown of CNO (12/11/87) 1988 Shutdown of INRIA/Rennes, CICB, Culture, CIRIL, CNET, INNPPP, ONERA, Brunel 01/88 Shutdown of MIT Multics (MSS 38.3), eqpt to McDonnell (01/02/88) 04/88 Development transferred to ACTC (Calgary) Opus canceled by Bull 05/88 Shutdown of AFDSC system T (05/31/88) 09/88 Shutdown of Brunel University Shutdown of CICRP, Grenoble, Rennes 11/88 MR 12.2: lint and make; TCP/IP support and inter-system mail. 10/88 Shutdown of Bristol & Bath (Avon) (10/10/88) 09/89 Shutdown of St Johns (SJU) (09/14/89) Shutdown of RADC (09/30/89) Shutdown of UBCC 12/89 MR 12.3 1990 Oakland University shut down Bell Canada Toronto, CCVR, SEP shut down 01/90 Shutdown of ENWGS-SDF 05/90 Shutdown of University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) 12/90 MR 12.4 1991 Shutdown of ABB (formerly Industrial Nucleonics). 03/91 Shutdown of Cardiff Joint Computing Centre (CJCC) (03/15/91) 07/91 Shutdown of Loughborough University Shutdown of ASEA Brown Boveri 1992 Shutdown of Bull Systeme X, BCO 02/92 Shutdown of AFDSC system D (02/28/92) 03/92 Shutdown of INRIA Shutdown of AFDSC system M (03/31/92) 06/92 Shutdown of last AFDSC machine, system Z (06/30/92) 09/92 Shutdown of Site N (Flagship). 1993 Shutdown of Bell Canada Montreal. 04/93 alt.os.multics started by Magnus Olsson 06/93 Shutdown of U of Calgary (06/16/93) 09/93 Shutdown of DDDS/ORAE (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) (09/03/93) 11/93 Shutdown of Honeywell System M (Phoenix) (11/28/93) 1994 Multicians website begun by THVV with much help and advice from BSG. 12/95 Shutdown of McDonnell Douglas (12/22/95) 04/96 Shutdown of last NWGS system, at US Naval War College. 04/97 Shutdown of Ford (04/25/97) 03/98 Shutdown of DOCKMASTER (03/31/98) Hardware to the Computer Museum History Center. 10/98 Shutdown of GM (10/20/98) 1999 PRHA no longer used? 07/00 Shutdown of CGI (was Perigon (was ACTC)) (07/07/00) 10/00 Shutdown of DND-H (17:08Z 10/30/00) 0 Oakland University shut down Bell Canada Toronto, CCVR, SEP shut down 01/90 Shutdown of ENWGS-SDF 05/90 Shutdown of University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) 12/90 MR 12.4 1991 Shutdown of ABB (formerly Industrial Nucleonics). 03/91 Shutdown of Cardiff Joint Computing Centre (CJCC) (03/15/91) 07/91 Shutdown of Loughborough University Shutdown of ASEA Brown Boveri 1992 Shutdown of Bull Systeme X, BCO 02/92 Shutdown of AFDSC system D (02/28/92) 03/92 Shutdown of INRIA Shutdown of AFDSC system M (03/31/92) 06/92 Shutdown of last AFDSC machine, system Z (06/30/92) 09/92 Shutdown of Site N (Flagship). 1993 Shutdown of Bell Canada Montreal. 04/93 alt.os.multics started by Magnus Olsson 06/93 Shutdown of U of Calgary (06/16/93) 09/93 Shutdown of DDDS/ORAE (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) (09/03/93) 11/93 Shutdown of Honeywell System M (Phoenix) (11/28/93) 1994 Multicians website begun by THVV with much help and advice from BSG. 12/95 Shutdown of McDonnell Douglas (12/22/95) 04/96 Shutdown of last NWGS system, at US Naval War College. 04/97 Shutdown of Ford (04/25/97) 03/98 Shutdown of DOCKMASTER (03/31/98) Hardware to the Computer Museum History Center. 10/98 Shutdown of GM (10/20/98) 1999 PRHA no longer used? 07/00 Shutdown of CGI (was Perigon (was ACTC)) (07/07/00) 10/00 Shutdown of DND-H (17:08Z 10/30/00) f DND-H (17:08Z 10/30/00) n of DND-H (17:08Z 10/30/00) GM (10/20/98) 1999 PRHA no longer used? 07/00 Shutdown of CGI (was Perigon (was ACTC)) (07/07/00) 10/00 Shutdown of DND-H (17:08Z 10/30/00) User Contributions:
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