From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-15 09:25:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:10:06 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1082045402 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:10:02 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:10:02 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7145 Date: 2004-04-15T12:10:06-04:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote: ... >> than normal. Academics also loved Multics but nevertheless they did >> not bother >> themselves with carrying its inheritance into the future. So no one >> knows how >> this potentially superior Multics would behave in big real world. > > Hmmm. Honeywell never did a good job of selling Multics systems, in > fact most customers thought it was a difficult fight to buy Multics > instead of GCOS. (On the other hand, almost all customers knew that al > GCOS 3& 8 development work was done on Multics, so why buy GCOS?) I remember that Ford tried to convince Honeywell to keep Multics going, but the economics were just not there. At least that was the conversation I remember when I worked for Honeywell, at the time just prior to them dropping it. > However several companies including Stratus and Prime developed and sold > operating systems that were based on Multics. Since they defined the > hardware, any necessary hardware support to do a good Multics clone was > "in there." Prime had a significant share of the "super-mini" market > with PrimOS when internal corporate politics basically killed PrimOS and > eventually Prime. ... I still maintain that Prime had the best EMACS version on the planet. I still have a copy of their emacs manual on the shelf somewhere at home. Their subset PL/I (SPL) was also fun to write code in at the time. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk