[rescue] Interesting bit on Multics

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 11:21 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>>> 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.

   Is there a modern PL/I compiler floating around for any modern 
platform?

      -Dave

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