(On that note, sometimes I find myself tempted to disable images and videos on Chrome...)
Lynx, the text-mode web browser? No. No real network access yet.
The front-end processor emulation turns TELNET connections into what Multics thinks are serial ports.
We don't have a TCP/IP network stack. The NSA didn't pass that along to the archivists. We have most of an
older ARPAnet (NCP) stack, and I think, a full X.25 stack.
Email currently works only between users of a given system. But we are planning to resurrect bang-path so we can exchange email with the outside world. This is mostly all outside the emulator though, it's part of our ongoing development of Multics itself.
I think once we do that, we'll also have a rudimentary web server in the form of Bjorn Victor's 'httpd' written in MACLISP
for ITS.
*Then* we could port Lynx. We do have a working C compiler!
Will it run my smart phone without crashing? I need something to run my phone that doesn't crash. Is there anything anywhere that won't crash, or is crashing a design feature intentionally put into software?
Software crashes because the people who pay for software development are more interested in having it NOW than they are in having it RIGHT.
Screw Agile.
If you don't like crashes, Multics is not for you. (See my previous post).
We really don't have much trouble there; I've had a Multics up for three months, another team member, nearly a year.
Then again, we haven't have hundreds of stoned college kids banging away at it.
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Based on the comments here, I can't wait for this story to be taken up at TheRegister.
Yuck. Eggs are not food. Eggs are food ingredient. Like for mayonnaise.
Who needed anything else?
What about Lynx?
(On that note, sometimes I find myself tempted to disable images and videos on Chrome...)
Lynx, the text-mode web browser? No. No real network access yet. The front-end processor emulation turns TELNET connections into what Multics thinks are serial ports. We don't have a TCP/IP network stack. The NSA didn't pass that along to the archivists. We have most of an older ARPAnet (NCP) stack, and I think, a full X.25 stack. Email currently works only between users of a given system. But we are planning to resurrect bang-path so we can exchange email with the outside world. This is mostly all outside the emulator though, it's part of our ongoing development of Multics itself. I think once we do that, we'll also have a rudimentary web server in the form of Bjorn Victor's 'httpd' written in MACLISP for ITS. *Then* we could port Lynx. We do have a working C compiler!
Will it run my smart phone without crashing? I need something to run my phone that doesn't crash. Is there anything anywhere that won't crash, or is crashing a design feature intentionally put into software?
Software crashes because the people who pay for software development are more interested in having it NOW than they are in having it RIGHT. Screw Agile.
Is it big endian, little endian, or bellend-ian?
Lol@bellendian. The GE635, GE645, Honeywell 6180, and Honeywell/Bull DPS8/m were all big endian machines. The emulator is endian-flexible.
If you don't like crashes, Multics is not for you. (See my previous post).
We really don't have much trouble there; I've had a Multics up for three months, another team member, nearly a year. Then again, we haven't have hundreds of stoned college kids banging away at it.