Subject: FAQ Multics Chronology
Date: 1 Jan 1996 10:02:31 -0800
Summary: Multics chronology.

archive-name: multics/chronology

01/28/95 THVV Added a few more dates
03/07/95 THVV Added a few more dates
04/05/95 THVV Added VPI shutdown date
07/17/95 THVV added more Ford dates
07/27/95 THVV added more AFDSC shutdown dates, info from Mike Underwood
10/05/95 THVV added RADC shutdown date, from Joh Ata

Please post updates to alt.os.multics or mail to <thvv@best.com>

07/63      Project MAC summer study
08/64      GE selected as supplier
11/65      Special Multics session at Fall Joint Computer Conf
08/65      GE 635 delivered, 6.36 simulator running
08/65      IBM announces TSS/360
01/67      GE 645 delivered to Project MAC
03/67      GE 635 removed from Project MAC
03/67      milestone phase .5 (file sys on simulator)
12/67      milestone phase 1 (single process)
03/68      milestone A3 - 3 processes
05/68      IBM releases CP/67 version 1
07/68      First Multics picnic
10/68      Demonstrable Initial Multics milestone (8 users)
12/68      console sessions in 545 Tech Sq
12/68      move MAC 7094 to MIT bldg 39
01/69      Limited Initial Multics milestone (12 users)
01/69      mini-gim & TTY
04/69      Bell Labs drops out of Multics development
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
10/69      new PL1 compiler, new traffic control
12/69      MSS 5.0 - DSU270's (10 MB disk)
12/70      Honeywell buys GE computer division
03/70      MSS 6.0 - command loop
03/70      MSS 7.0 - page ctl
05/70      Multics talk at GESHUA XI in Seattle (TVV)
06/70      MSS 8.0 - pre-paging
08/70      MSS 9.0 - new dir ctl, user ctl
08/70      RADC installed
10/70      MSS 10.0 - new ttydim
11/70      MSS 11.0 - new init
12/70      MSS 12.0 - DSU170's
12/70      MSS 13.0 - AM fix
01/71      MSS 14.0 - ring 4
04/71      MSS 15.0 - retrofit
05/71      IBM decommits TSS/360
11/72      MIT 6180 delivered
12/72      MSS 18.0. - ACL redo
01/17/73   Multics announcement at Museum of Science
07/20/73   CTSS turned off at MIT IPC
01/74      MSS 22.0
01/74      Ford installed
05/74      GM Corporate installed
06/74      MR 1.0: EIS, BASIC, GCOS Simulator, DSS191
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
07/75      University of Southwestern Louisiana installed
1975       Ford deinstalled
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
10/77      MR 6.0: tape, ESD, salvager, RJE, WORDPRO, 7 CPUs
1978       Ford gets Multics again
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
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
1980       Stratus formed, many Multicians leave
03/80      MR 8.0: VIP7801/7804, IBM 3270, Process Preservation
12/80      MR 8.2: MSU0500/501, T&D, COBOL, PL/I, FORTRAN, BOS
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
03/82      MR 9.1:  T&D, Hasp, EMACS, FORTRAN, Tape
10/82      MR10.0:  4 IOMs, IOM Paged Mode, Dial-out, X.25, Forum
01/83      CNO gets 8/70M
04/83      CCVR installed
06/83      Canadian DND installed
09/83      CISL moves from Tech Square to Cambridge Center
10/83      MR 10.1:  Printers 901/1201, X.25 LAPB, Subsystem Utilities
01/84      MR 10.2:  Satellite 6M, LINUS, FIPS FORTRAN
06/84      Special for DND: IO reconfiguration
1985       Almost 100 sites (Gintell ACM speech)
02/85      Flower canceled by Honeywell
06/85      Multics development capped by Honeywell
06/85      MR 11.0:  32k Cache, FAMIS, Exec Forum, PC Support
08/29/85   B2 rating awarded to MR11.0+ by NCSC
10/85      Black armbands at HLSUA
10/85      Multics spin-off (based on Flower) proposed at HLSUA
11/85      Spin-off dismissed by Honeywell
12/85      McDonnell Douglas installed
1986       MR 12.0: BOS eliminated, IMU, FIPS tape & disk
01/86      Opus (NOS/VS3) IPR-0 review at Honeywell
06/86      CISL closed, Opus team to Honeywell Billerica
11/87      Bull takes over Honeywell computer division
01/02/88   Shutdown of MIT Multics (MSS 38.3), eqpt to McDonnell
04/88      Development transferred to ACTC (Calgary)
04/88      Opus canceled by Honeywell
05/31/88   Shutdown of AFDSC system T
09/88      Shutdown of Brunel University
09/14/89   Shutdown of St Johns
09/30/89   Shutdown of RADC
05/90      Shutdown of University of Southwestern Louisiana
03/15/91   Shutdown of Cardiff University
07/91      Shutdown of Loughborough University
07/91      Shutdown of ASEA Brown Boveri
02/28/92   Shutdown of AFDSC system D
03/31/92   Shutdown of AFDSC system M
06/30/92   Shutdown of last AFDSC machine, system Z
04/93      alt.os.multics started by Magnus Olsson
06/16/93   Shutdown of U of Calgary
09/03/93   Shutdown of DDDS/ORAE (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
11/28/93   Shutdown of Honeywell System M (Phoenix)
