Any word on the Multics revival front?

Zane Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Sat Mar 12 13:49:14 CST 2016


> On Mar 12, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a also the GCOS TSS subsystem which is an interactive programming
> environment supporting several languages (Multics includes the BASIC and
> FORTRAN runtimes). Sadly, there remain some emulator bugs that are causing
> some failures under TSS; and lacking the source code for TSS, it is proving
> to be an intractable issue.
> 
> -- Charles

That would almost be enough for me from the sounds of things.  Too bad there are issues.  I don’t suppose there is Waterloo C?  That was a painful way to try to learn C programming. :-)  Definitely not K&R.

Zane





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