> Yeah, I was going to mention that. The fact that it's written in PL/I is > certainly an odd choice, but I guess no stranger than writing an OS in C.
As a retired Multician, there's nothing at all odd about Multics being in PL/1. PL/1 is perfectly natural, and has a lot of really nice things in it for writing really, REALLY safe, stable code. You can get away with all kinds of crap in C that PL/1 won't tolerate -- and that way leads to Windows. 8-) Talking about unnatural, though, that Honeywell 601 hardware... that's another story. 8-) -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
