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[[Image:Number6.gif|150px|rightt|thumb|Inspiration for MagixSix name]]

'''MagicSix''' was an [[operating system]] similar to [[Multics]], developed at the MIT Architecture Machine Group for [[Interdata 8/32|Interdata/Perkin-Elmer 32-bit machines]].  The name means "Mockapetris and Gregory's Interactive Computer".

It hosted a [[LISP]] dialect called MagixSixLisp, in which the [[graphics]] [[software]] [[ASAS]] was first written.

It also hosted [[SINE]] ("SINE is not EINE"), perhaps the second [[Emacs editors|Emacs]] clone after [[EINE]].

There were some [[Imlac]] [[workstation]]s, and [[Maze War]] was ported over from the Dynamic Modeling group.

[[Chaosnet|Chaos]] was the only [[communication network|networking]] option.

== Timeline ==

* "Magic 1.0 allowed basically a user per machine with a shared fail system." "I believe this was the summer of 69 or maybe 70."
* In 1973, "a couple of model 5's and a model 3".
* "we soon thereafter got an (amazing to me) model 70."
* "Later we got a Model 85".
* ~1974, [[Maze War]] running.
* 1974, M.A.G.I.C. 4.
* "By 1976 we had a couple of 7/32's".
* 1976, MagicSix, rewrite in PL/1.
* 1977, SINE and TVMacs.
* 1978, MagicSix ported to Interdata 8/32.
* 1979, Aspen Movie Map.
* In the 80s, host tables show some PerkinElmer 3230 machines.
* 1987, ArchMach disconnected from Chaosnet.

== External Links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041335/http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2006-February/008434.html A possible Interdata roadmap]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230508223241/http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2018-November/018391.html MagicSix]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map Aspen Movie Map]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgcfI254xEU CAD system at MIT Architecture Machine Group in 1976]
* [https://github.com/ArchMach/documents/tree/master/messages Messages about MagicSix]

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[[Category: Operating Systems]]