[Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>

​Interesting.   With Apollo they went back to Fortran (Ratfor actually).
Bill was always good at seeing the direction of future (one of the best
people I have known at doing that), but he did not always get the actual
technology that won in the end.
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