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{{OSinfobox
{{OSinfobox
|tanname= Multics-tan
|image =
|image= Multics.png‎
|cname= Multics-tan
|alias= Multics-sama
|creator= Bella
|debut= October/November 2007


|osper= Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service)
|cname = Multics
|osdev= Bell Labs, General Electric, MIT; later Honeywell/Bull
|alias = Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
|reldate= Development started in 1964; first commercial release in 1969
|hname = Minerva Corbato
|lastrel= Circa 1985
|debut = Oct-Nov 2007
|height = 170 cm (5'7")
|haircolor= dark red-purple
|eyecolor= Blue or gold
|weapon = Labyrinth; various psionic forcefields
|apfaction = MIT Society
|lineage= MIT-tan via CTSS
|rival= GECOS, TSS/360


|fnote= Comments on the character.
|osper = Multics
|osdev = MIT, Bell Labs, GE, Honeywell
|reldate = Development started in 1964; first commercial release in 1969
|lastrel = Circa 1985
}}
}}
==Technical details==
==Technical details==
Multics is an ambitious OS developed jointly by Bell Labs (dropped out of the project in 1969), General Electric (later Honeywell) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded largely by DARPA. The goal of this collaboration, dubbed Project MAC, was to create an operating system that worked as a water or electric utility does; running on a central mainframe which thousands of users would have access to. Because of this, stability and security were of the utmost importance.
Multics is an ambitious OS developed jointly by Bell Labs (dropped out of the project in 1969), General Electric (later Honeywell) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded largely by DARPA. The goal of this collaboration, dubbed Project MAC, was to create an operating system that worked as a water or electric utility does; running on a central mainframe which thousands of users would have access to. Because of this, stability and security were of the utmost importance.

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