[rescue] Interesting bit on Multics

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 11:38 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>>> So what's to stop us from changing that 10/21/2000 date... by
>>> resurrecting Multics hardware and running Multics as a community
>>> effort?... Cost...? Unobtainium?
>>
>> It was very tied to PL/1 which was a horrible language by any account,
>> besides the OS was also coupled to a specific ISA support for some of 
>> the
>> features. I believe there were some efforts to port it to modern 
>> micros
>> (read x86) and failed misserably.
>
> Why not just resurrect a Honeywell machine... I think that would have 
> more geek points to it...
>
> I'm talking about rescuing an original machine or putting one 
> together... and running the last release... i.e. Rhode Island 
> computing museum style.

   This would be great, and I'd do it in a heartbeat...if someone could 
point me at a machine that hasn't been hacked to death for gold.

   I *cried* (literally) when the goons at Purdue destroyed that CDC 
6600.  As far as I've been able to tell, it was the last one.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                      "My tummy hurts now, but my soul
St. Petersburg, FL                 feels a little better."     -Ed