Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: 2.0 Compatibility Message-ID: <21542@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 14 May 91 07:29:02 GMT References: <48821@ut-emx.uucp> <913.28202b13@vger.nsu.edu> <91126.101931DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991May8.234534.17793@NCoast.ORG> <00674019691@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 In article <00674019691@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes: >> Gosh. There are still living Multics hackers? I thought the last of them >> had already died off. Those people must be OLD. :) >For example, as late as 1984, USL had a real live Multics system and a band >of fanatics that used it. I suppose those ex-Multicians are now in their >30's, but that's hardly as many years as you credit them with :-). Actually, you can find a lot of them hanging around Stratus (you know, the people who build hardware-based fault-tolerant systems based on Motorola processors). Stratus VOS (they also have a Unix) is written largely in PL/1 Subset G, as are many applications for it (they finally got a C compiler in '85 or maybe '86). I still have a 2 foot stack of VOS manuals, and a few ideas from it have slipped into AmigaDos (and a few more probably will). One thing I want is the "display form" ability they had in their ReadArgs()- equivalent. BTW, VOS was wordy. You may think AmigaDos commands are wordy compared to Unix. Well, VOS is the same distance further. The equivalent of "cd" was "change_current_directory". No joke. Boy, were aliases useful! -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)