Any word on the Multics revival front?

[Eric Swenson]

Multics does have a C compiler — it may have been developed at Waterloo (or Calgary?).  I just checked the pnotice and see that it is copyright Honeywell and AT&T.  

It is pretty lame and the run-time library is (obviously) ancient.  It includes a c preprocessor, a curses library, make, lint, and a few unix-like commands.

— Eric

> On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 12, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> -- Charles
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> 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.
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