[SunRescue] Re: Multics

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I'm not sure that anyone could sit down and write a PL/1 compiler.  The
spec was huge.  I mean, it was so large that nobody ever fully implemented
the spec.

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Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Les wrote:

> UNIX - mainly written in "C" with only little pieces, like specific drivers,
> hardware interfaces,
> done in something else (like assembly language for the platform).
> Mutlics? Who has a compiler for PL/1? Have to write one.
> Maybe some of the people on this list could write a good comprehensive
> compiler,
> but I sure am not one of them.
> 
> Les
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Dunbar" <Brian.Dunbar at Plexus.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Re: Multics
> 
> 
> >Is anyone releasing the Mutlics code to public domain?  Maybe we could
> >port it to sparc.
> 
> Now, I'm just a dumb grunt who uses Outlook, but hasn't this been done over
> and over again with Unix?  That is, it was written to run on a specfic
> system way back around the time I was wearing diapers, and was ported to
> newer generations of software.
> 
> So . . aside from a lack of interest, is anything *really* keeping an
> interested Linus Torvalds/R. Stallman wannabe from porting Multics to the
> x86 and/or Sparc platforms?
> 
> Be kind, I'm simple about this stuff.
> 
> brian
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