[Info-vax] Continued development of PDP-10 architecture [was Re: Hard links

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-04 14:20, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-03, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>> In article <uagvj1$b7r$1 at news.misty.com>, bqt at softjar.se (Johnny
>> Billquist) wrote:
>>
>>> On 2023-08-03 14:10, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> I still wish Prism had become a thing. That would have changed a
>>>> lot of things and (IMHO) for the better, both at hardware and
>>>> especially software level.
>>>
>>> Weren't bits of Prism reused in Alpha? Or am I mixing it up with
>>> something else now?
>>
>> Bits of the hardware design, yes. The OS design was abandoned by DEC; the
>> concept re-appeared in Windows NT's subsystem architecture, but over time,
>> only the Windows subsystem has survived.
>>
> 
> Yes, the software (a new OS, a new safer alternative to C, etc) would
> have been the most important thing long-term. Oh, well.

Not so sure I would have been very happy or impressed by some Pascal 
derivate. Those languages have their own issues, which in my opinion, 
makes them worse, although in other ways.

But Mica also allowed C for implementation of stuff, so I would suspect 
had it survived, it would have become just as C centric as everything else.

   Johnny