Any word on the Multics revival front?

[Charles Anthony]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
>
I don't know the origins of the Multics C compiler; we don't have the
sources. Grepping the executable yields:

PCC/PCCrx UNIX 6.X

I don't know my earlier C compiler history, but I;m guessing 'Portable C
Compiler"

I don't believe that TSS has a C subsystem.

-- Charles