[rescue] Interesting bit on Multics

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Fri Oct 17 22:21:24 CDT 2003


> > So what's to stop us from changing that 10/21/2000 date... by
> > resurrecting Multics hardware and running Multics as a community
> > effort?... Cost...? Unobtainium?
> 
> It was very tied to PL/1 which was a horrible language by any account,

There's a lot of code written in PL/I, esp. at three-letter-agencies.
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Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net



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