Anthropodermic bibliopegy performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals, such as the case of John Horwood in 1821 and the Red Barn Murder in 1828. Another tradition, with less supporting evidence, is that books of erotica or the occult have been bound in human skin. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh preserves a notebook bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke after his execution and subsequent public dissection by Professor Alexander Monro in 1829. What Lawrence Thompson called "the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings" is exhibited at the Boston
Edinburgh Multiple Access System ('basic command interpreter'), a comprehensive archiving system and a memory-mapped file architecture. Such features led EMAS supporters to claim that their system was superior to Unix for the first 20 years of the latter's existence. The Edinburgh Computer History Project is attempting to salvage some of the lessons learned from the EMAS project and has the complete source code of EMAS online for public browsing. Edinburgh Multiple Access System The Edinburgh Multi-Access System (EMAS) was a mainframe computer operating system developed at the University of Edinburgh during the 1970s. EMAS was a powerful and efficient general purpose multi-user system which