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- Multics License Historical Background
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- This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided
- and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including
- BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge.
- This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric,
- Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL
- HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics
- development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project
- MAC (1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial
- Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of Professor Fernando
- Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture
- for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent
- operating systems incorporated Multics principles. Multics was distributed
- in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe, and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information
- Systems Inc., as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell
- Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. . -----------------------------------------------------------
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- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these programs and their documentation
- for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the below
- copyright notice and historical background appear in all copies and that both
- the copyright notice and historical background and this permission notice
- appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of MIT, HIS, BULL or
- BULL HN not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution
- of the programs without specific prior written permission.
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- Copyright 1972 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information
- Systems Inc.
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- Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc.
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- Copyright 2006 by Bull SAS All Rights Reserved
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