[Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth
Dennis Boone
drb at msu.edu
Wed Mar 4 16:40:22 EST 2015
> 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
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