Does anyone still use Multics??

David Farber farber at linc.cis.upenn.edu
Sun Dec 4 07:07:23 AEST 1988


In article <6392 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> steve at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
>
>available for it (since I'm asking).  I presume it would have been written
>in something like FORTRAN.  
>
Multics was NOT written in Fortran. It was written in PL/1 (initially
according to the NPL spec then the full PL/1 spec). It was probably
the first PL/1 compiler written afterthe Share/IBM 3x3 spec.

Dave
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