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Multics was an attempt to make a computer a dependable shared utility. This paper explains how its designers connected goals such as continuous operation, controlled sharing and expandable capacity to implementation choices and years of experience. It also discusses revisions and incomplete goals. The contribution is an account of a working system and the lessons extracted from building it, rather than a claim that every feature of the original vision had been delivered.
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The exact three-author 1972 implementation and experience paper. Multics was a collective MIT, Bell Laboratories and GE/Honeywell project; paper authorship does not transfer all project credit. Planned protection hardware and delivered facilities are distinct. Reported system figures describe that installation and period, not a modern performance benchmark.
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Fernando J. Corbató; Jerome H. Saltzer; Charles T. Clingen
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Corbató, Saltzer and Clingen: Multics—The First Seven Years
Multics was an attempt to make a computer a dependable shared utility. This paper explains how its designers connected goals such as continuous operation, controlled sharing and expandable capacity to implementation choices and years of experience. It also discusses revisions and incomplete goals. The contribution is an account of a working system and the lessons extracted from building it, rather than a claim that every feature of the original vision had been delivered.
Scientific scope
The exact three-author 1972 implementation and experience paper. Multics was a collective MIT, Bell Laboratories and GE/Honeywell project; paper authorship does not transfer all project credit. Planned protection hardware and delivered facilities are distinct. Reported system figures describe that installation and period, not a modern performance benchmark.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Fernando J. Corbató; Jerome H. Saltzer; Charles T. Clingen
Source-listed authors for the exact contribution; experimental subjects are not autonomous scientific authors. Source support and predecessor work retain separate roles. Individual effort shares and unresolved identities are not inferred.