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From: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
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Subject: Re: Does anyone still use Multics??
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In article <6392@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
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>available for it (since I'm asking).  I presume it would have been written
>in something like FORTRAN.  
>
Multics was NOT written in Fortran. It was written in PL/1 (initially
according to the NPL spec then the full PL/1 spec). It was probably
the first PL/1 compiler written afterthe Share/IBM 3x3 spec.

Dave
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