Re: Any word on the Multics revival front?

2016-03-12 Thread Eric Swenson
While I don't know of any GCOS 8 systems out there, Multics does include a GCOS batch simulator. Some customers of Multics used it (in preference to GCOS) because it was actually faster. While I can't vouch for the completeness or correctness of the GCOS batch system's working under the emulato

Re: Any word on the Multics revival front?

2016-03-12 Thread Eric Swenson
Multics does have a C compiler — it may have been developed at Waterloo (or Calgary?). I just checked the pnotice and see that it is copyright Honeywell and AT&T. It is pretty lame and the run-time library is (obviously) ancient. It includes a c preprocessor, a curses library, make, lint, a

Re: MiST - Amiga ST FPGA + intro

2016-03-31 Thread Eric Swenson
You can also use the KLH10 emulator and run ITS (probably TOPS-20 as well). Both have MacLisp as well. Multics, running under the DPS8M emulator, is probably easier to get running, and the OS is a lot easier to grok than ITS. — Eric > On Mar 31, 2016, at 3:05 PM, Charles Anthony > wrote: >