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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Does anyone still use Multics??
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Date: 7 Dec 88 00:45:13 GMT
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In article <438@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
>Multics PL/I wasn't full PL/I, either IBM or ANSI.  Effectively, Multics
>defined the compileable subset of PL/I.  This is responsible for the
>success (such as it is) of PL/I outside IBM.

The language Multics was originally implemented in was a PL/I subset
(called EPL), but a full ANSI PL/I compiler was later written, around
1968 or 1969.  It was revised extensively (to take advantage of new
hardware features) in 1972.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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