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==History== * 1966 β IBM Remote Access Computing System (RAX) released. * 1972 β McGill's RAX modifications accepted by IBM for distribution as "Installed User Program" under the name of "McGill University System for Interactive Computing" (MUSIC).<ref>{{cite book |title=MUSIC: McGill University System for Interactive Computing : primer |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/937543344 |author1=Trevor Garland |author2=Michael Conway |author3=Frank Pettinicchio |year=1980|oclc=937543344 }}</ref> * 1978 β MUSIC 4.0 Major change to [[file system]] providing [[long filename|longer file names]] and advanced access control. * 1981 β MUSIC 5.0 Support for IBM 4300 series CPUs and [[Fixed-block architecture|FBA]] disks. * 1985 β MUSIC/SP 1.0 Adopted by IBM as "System Product". Support for [[virtual memory]]. * 1990 β MUSIC/SP 2.2, described by ''IBM'' as having "significant enhancements."<ref name=MUSCthru9370.IBM>{{cite web |url=https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=897/ENUSC90-004%26infotype=AN%26subtype=CA%26appname=skmwww |title=Announcement Summary |quote=significant enhancements ,, from 2.1, announced May 2, 1989. |date=February 20, 1990}}</ref> * 1991 β MUSIC/SP 2.3 Internet support and tree-structured file system. Over the years the following people contributed to the MUSIC and MUSIC/SP systems. Roy Miller, Alan Greenberg, Wilf Mandel, Dave Edwards, Nelson Nguyen, Kevin McNamee, Don Farnsworth (IBM), Dean Daniele (IBM), Glen Matthews, Linda Chernabrow, Frank Pettinicchio, Earl Lindberg, Pierre Goyette, Kathy Wilmot, Simon Fulleringer, David Thorpe, Gerald Ratzer, Harry Williams (Marist College), Dave Juraschek (Northern Virginia Community Colleges), Christian Robert (Ecole Polytechnique), Simone Spiller, Silvino Mezzari, and Mike Short.
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