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The “ Recent Changes” part of the site is depressing

Recent Changes 08/03 Multicians: Jim Bush died in July 2025.

07/14 Multicians: Norm Barnecut died Dec 09, 2023.

05/24 Multicians: Nate Adleman died Sept 19, 2022.

05/15 Simulator: Release 3.1.0 of the DPS8M simulator was released.

05/12 Multicians: Richard Gardner died in 2025.

05/05 Multicians: Art Bushkin died in Feb 2024.



You can see exactly how many people have died on their log page: https://www.multicians.org/changes-old.html

At this moment in time, 125.


20- & 30- somethings in the 80s are now mostly past retirement age. Actuarial attrition is a fact.


I went and looked up my former CS professor who I knew had worked on Multics. And unfortunately learned that he had passed away a few years ago.




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