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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation)
Date: 1998/10/22
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>Multics was over 85% written in PL\1, so there's some precedent for writing
>an OS in a higher-level language than PDP-11 assembler (also known as C).
And the B5500 OS was about 99% in Burroughs Algol.