7 Mar
2017
7 Mar
'17
1:24 a.m.
On 6 March 2017 at 13:00, ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 8:21 AM Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Also, they would have used PL/S or PLMP or somesuch
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PL/S #6-). Interesting, over the
years, IBM has used numerous languages for their various OS systems
(http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=226253 that, granted, has no UNIX
in it).
N.
I once heard that some version of AIX was actually implemented in PL/I. I
strongly doubted that, and no one's mentioned it so I assume that's
apocryphal? It would be so distinctive that I can't imagine someone NOT
mentioning it if it were the case.
I spent about 6 years working with IBM and U. Penn on AIX and nothing of
that was ever mentioned by anyone. It sounds like a myth.