On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Dave Wade <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote: [GCOS-8] > Sadly, I doubt it very much. It was still in use on emulated hardware until > relatively recently and I assume BULL was still making money from it and > guarding its assets. Thinkage still have GCOS products listed on their web > site.
There's at least some possible future upside to that, which is that if they are (or recently were) still selling and supporting it, then they probably still actually have it, vs. the huge amount of software of historical interest that is already lost. Also, since Group BULL was willing to make a Multics license available, that may serve as useful precedent for getting them to offer a similar GCOS license at some future date when they don't believe it will harm their commercial interests.
