Alexander Monro (tertius) Charles found the sight of surgery so upsetting that he stopped trying and turned his attention to natural history. During Monro's tenure as Professor of Anatomy, Edinburgh was rocked by scandal due to the notorious "Burke and Hare murders" in which healthy individuals were intentionally killed in order to supply cadavers for dissection by anatomy lecturers and their students. One of the murderers, William Burke, was hanged on 28 January 1829, after which he was famously dissected at the Edinburgh Medical College by Monro himself. In a letter, Monro dipped his quill pen into Burke's blood and wrote, "This is
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