Not related at all, to my knowledge. 

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> On Sep 27, 2015, at 01:00, Steve Algernon <salger...@me.com> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if it's relevant:
> 
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordMARC
> 
> My brother was one of the few engineers on this product, in Palo Alto. The 
> software ran on dozens of different machines and architectures, using the 
> most portable language of the day: Fortran 77.  I believe MARC was the 
> umbrella name/company for a number of different products. 
> 
> He got me a summer job there - I had to print out the sources and then make 
> copies for everyone. We also wired the offices with rs-232 runs to the PRIME 
> lurking in the basement.  
> 
> Formative years...
> 
> Sent from my teeny little terminal. 
> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Eric Christopherson 
>>> <echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
>>> (BTW, My memory of that acronym is "Machine Assisted Resource
>>> Coordinator", a small-sized Unix work-alike developed by Ed Ziemba (RIP)
>>> using Leor Zolman's BDS C compiler).
>> 
>> I'm having trouble finding much about this system; most of it is on your
>> web page and the Wikipedia page for BDS C, which appears to borrow quite
>> a bit from your page. Was MARC an OS itself, or a Unix-like layer on
>> CP/M? Is it available to download and play with?
>> 
>> -- 
>>       Eric Christopherson

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