> Remember when "VAX SW" is being put together in the early/mid-70s, > many commercial OS guys (particularly @ DEC) did not (yet) believe it > was possible to right a commercial OS in anything but assembler - > until UNIX (although UNIX was hardly the first - Boroughs used an > Algol, and of course GE/Honeywell and Pr1me used PL/1 and to be fair > UNIX v1 was written in PDP-7 assembler).
Poduska bully-wheedled his operating system engineers into using a compiled language in the beginning, but it was FORTRAN at first. PL/P didn't come along until '78 or so. De _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
