[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-24, Dennis Boone <drb at ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
> > That's seriously interesting thanks. So, contrary to what some are
> > saying, the idea of writing an OS in such a way was well established
> > by the mid-1970s.
>
> The idea was fairly widespread quite a bit earlier, actually.  Burroughs
> did ESPOL (an Algol derivative systems language) in starting in 1966.

Just done some reading about this and the follow-on language NEWP.

It has now become _very_ clear to me that the use of ALGOL-based languages
in OS development was very seriously widespread by the time DEC came to
design VMS. Pity DEC didn't join them.

Thanks to everyone for the references.

Simon.

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