[SunRescue] multics is dead, long live multics!

[Joshua D. Boyd]

People keep mentioning the DPS-6 as a FEP.  What does FEP mean?

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Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Will Jennings wrote:

> Yes, Groupe Bull is still in business... You've found the North American 
> offices of Groupe Bull, which is a French company, based in Paris... And 
> they make mainframes and sell rebadged RS/6000's.. The mainframes run GCOS, 
> which can trace its roots to GECOS, which doesn't have much similarity to 
> Multics. For one, GECOS is an older operating system, with GECOS II dating 
> to about 1964. At one point, Mutlics and GCOS were to have a common code 
> base, but this never happened. GCOS is simply the renaming that occured when 
> GE sold the computer operations to Honeywell.. Honeywell then confused the 
> picture further by calling the OS for the big machines GCOS, and calling the 
> OS for the minis GCOS as well.. Multics was also available for large 
> systems, but you couldn't run Multics without also running GCOS, though I'm 
> talking about GCOS running on the DPS-6 mini which was required as a FEP. 
> Hope that helps... If anyone has any Honeywell manuals at all, please let me 
> know, I love the Honeywell machines and am trying to research their history 
> further...
> 
> Will J
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