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		lproven on April 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The wild world of non-C operating systems Yes it does. I had reasons. I'm not saying that they're great reasons, but... * because it's not obscure * because I don't know much about it * because once you open the can of worms labelled "PL/?" then it sort of explodes in your face, with fun aspects touched on in other comments, such as there being at least 2 different languages called PL/M, but PL/I and PL/1 are the same, and... It's complicated, and I don't know enough about it... yet.

p_l on April 1, 2022 [–]

Fortunately Multics is one of the easier ones to learn about from that list :)

Thanks to <http://multicians.org> (which gathers information about Multics including source code) and <http://ban.ai> (public access Multics system)

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