Thank you, I hadn't come across that yet.   Their prebuilds and QuickStart
readme.txt all worked splendidly.   Except, the "tutorial" command did not
work for me

The multics TAP is ~5.2MB.  I guess the "version" is MR12, and it lets me
make files and folders of up to 32 characters.   It wasn't clear yet to me
on how to list-processes, or to invoke processes to the background.  The
manuals (so far) described file structure and PL/1 programming stuff, but
haven't yet come across sections about processes.


*********************************************
list

Segments = 4, Lengths = 0.


r w    0  12345678901234567890123456789012
r w    0  123456789012345678901234567890
r w    0  12345678901234567890
r w    0  1234567890

r 20:34 0.017 0 level 2

change_wdir abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456

r 20:35 0.016 0 level 2

pwd

>user_dir_dir>SysAdmin>Repair>test>test2>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
r 20:35 0.016 0 level 2
*****************************************************


The "tutorial" command requires some kind of extra terminal setup, will
have to read more about it later:

tutorial

tutorial: The specified terminal is not supported by the video system.
Opening
\cswitch user_terminal_
r 20:37 0.038 2 level 2


Cool stuff, thanks.

-Steve





On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM Craig Ruff via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> You can also run Multics in a simulator: https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m
> It's been a while since I've been actively involved in that project, but
> it ran nicely.

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