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| Multics License |
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| 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. |
| Copyright 1972 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information |
| Systems Inc. |
| Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc. |
| Copyright 2006 by Bull SAS |
| All Rights Reserved |
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