[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-25 14:18, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Including Multics. Not an outstanding success exactly...
Most companies that went that way early was way less successful than 
DEC, so it is kindof strange to claim that DEC did it wrong and they did 
it right...

   Johnny