Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
: Jean-David Beyer wrote:
: Another way of looking at your statement would be if you thought I meant a
: language in which to write operating systems. I think it would be possible
: to do it in BASIC, but I sure would not want to try it. I know ALGOL 60
: compilers were written in ALGOL 60, even though it was by no means ideal to
: do so.

: Not always. The Burroughs machines of that era (late 1960's) were true
: stack processors and Algol suited them perferctly. The same with the HP
: 3000 computers of the early 1970's which also used some variant of Algol
: as their "machine language".


: Linux was first written in assembler for the PDP7
: (and later the PDP11), and was converted to C in the early to mid 1970s.


: UNIX not LINUX!!! Linux did not exist in any form until the early 1990's
: and it started life as a terminal emulator.

That's interesting. I was always under the impression that Linux started life
as a unix clone.

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