[SunRescue] Re: Multics

[Ken Hansen]

Notice the question mark after C++ - I was *guessing*...

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Re: Multics


> What unix is written in C++?  Linux and *bsd are in C.  Most machine
> specific bits are still written in C, with only small amounts of really
> low level stuff in asm (if I remeber, it is less than 1000 lines of intel
> asm, other platforms probablly have less).
>
> --
> Joshua Boyd
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> > Linus didn't port anything - he wrote it. Same with R. Stallman. That is
the
> > accomplishment!
> >
> > Unix was written in assembler first, then re-written in C, after C was
> > developed.
> >
> > Unix as it stands now is written primarily in higher-level language (C,
> > C++?), with machine specific bits written in C. It used to be that Unix
> > could be ported to a new machine, running a supported processor, in just
a
> > few days, if the right person was doing the porting. You only had to
code
> > Unix to work around the quirks in the hardware...
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Les" <les at cdproc.com>
> > To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Re: Multics
> >
> >
> > > 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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