Interesting. My knowledge of Multics is minimal past it being thoroughly dead. But it's the ideas that are important. Will go and read.
I'm a rarity, someone who actually got his hands on a Multics system. I had access to the Multics installation at Brunel University back at the start of the 80s. It was a huge 2 processor system with 8Mb of core and supported a whole university - I've got an emulator here that will run in the background without me noticing it while it happily runs the same sort of load as a whole campus back in the day. Apparently running the simulator on a Raspberry Pi 2 gives similar actual performance to the original room sized hardware.
I keep meaning to have more of a play with it beyond running it up, logging in and going "Cool, that looks really familiar". I used to have most of the paper system documentation, which took a lot of begging and scrounging and took up several shelves - nowadays it's all downloadable as PDFs.
Interesting. That was pretty large at the time. My first exposure to a proper multi-user system wasn't until very early 90s unfortunately. That was, purely by chance at Brunel. I had an interview and the lecturer whos name I forget and myself talked more about Unix than anything else and he showed me the joys of it. He had a Sun, I believe a 3/60 on his desk. That may have shaped my eventual migration away from electrical engineering because I probably spent more time pissing around with that than actually going to lectures and learning "boring laplace shit".
I had no idea they had a Multics system there.
Don't get me started on computer simulation. That's another rabbit hole
Someone elsewhere just offered me a Z80 "quidboard" so called because they were a fairly well featured Z80 board for £1 sold by Birketts. I am considering taking it. Another rabbit hole because it has two serial ports and an exposed bus. That means MP/M ....
Edit: current reading: BBN Report 1822 ....
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/bbn/imp/BBN1822_Jan1976.pdf