Based on the comments here, I can't wait for this story to be taken up at TheRegister.

Yuck. Eggs are not food. Eggs are food ingredient. Like for mayonnaise.

Lynx, the text-mode web browser? No. No real network access yet. The front-end processor emulation turns TELNET connections into what Multics thinks are serial ports. We don't have a TCP/IP network stack. The NSA didn't pass that along to the archivists. We have most of an older ARPAnet (NCP) stack, and I think, a full X.25 stack. Email currently works only between users of a given system. But we are planning to resurrect bang-path so we can exchange email with the outside world. This is mostly all outside the emulator though, it's part of our ongoing development of Multics itself. I think once we do that, we'll also have a rudimentary web server in the form of Bjorn Victor's 'httpd' written in MACLISP for ITS. *Then* we could port Lynx. We do have a working C compiler!

Software crashes because the people who pay for software development are more interested in having it NOW than they are in having it RIGHT. Screw Agile.

Lol@bellendian. The GE635, GE645, Honeywell 6180, and Honeywell/Bull DPS8/m were all big endian machines. The emulator is endian-flexible.

We really don't have much trouble there; I've had a Multics up for three months, another team member, nearly a year. Then again, we haven't have hundreds of stoned college kids banging away at it.