3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
3:58 p.m.
On 12/3/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Zane Healy
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 8:37 PM
The only
thing we used on our Multics 6180 was the Cobol compiler.
Multics did not have one at the time, and I don't know if anyone ported
one after the 75 timeframe I was using it.
FWIW, the Multics Simulator which uses the sources and binaries posted
by Al is coming along nicely. It has limited ring1 admin running (with
bugs) on the console. They also were able to take the release they had
and do the multics equivalent of creating a boot tape.
There are a myriad of bugs to fix, but an amazing amount works now.
At the time I was on Multics, in 75, I think all the people working on
Emacs used the MIT machine for development. Also Macsyma was being
developed and hosted on Multics.
Jim
On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Rich Alderson
<RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org> wrote:
> I used Multics Emacs
[snip]
> If it ran on Multics, I find myself wondering if it ran on GCOS-8. I can't say. It was written in Multics MACLISP,
so if *that* ran on
GCOS...
Rich
Rich Alderson
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