On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Zane Healy <heal...@aracnet.com> wrote:
> > > On Mar 12, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Charles Anthony < > charles.unix....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > There is a also the GCOS TSS subsystem which is an interactive > programming > > environment supporting several languages (Multics includes the BASIC and > > FORTRAN runtimes). Sadly, there remain some emulator bugs that are > causing > > some failures under TSS; and lacking the source code for TSS, it is > proving > > to be an intractable issue. > > > > -- Charles > > That would almost be enough for me from the sounds of things. Too bad > there are issues. I don’t suppose there is Waterloo C? That was a painful > way to try to learn C programming. :-) Definitely not K&R. > > I don't know the origins of the Multics C compiler; we don't have the sources. Grepping the executable yields: PCC/PCCrx UNIX 6.X I don't know my earlier C compiler history, but I;m guessing 'Portable C Compiler" I don't believe that TSS has a C subsystem. -- Charles
