Douglas Roberts wrote:
> BTW, I was one of those who rebooted my Symbolics 3600 as soon as it 
> started a garbage collect; there was still plenty of time to get a cup 
> of coffee.
>
Seems like if we had a really spiffy general JIT virtual machine 
software we could run these fine operating systems on modern hardware.  

P.S. I can't help root for the PL/1 GCC project.   Would love to tell 
the sysadmins at work that I'm running Multics on my PC. 

http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net/


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