From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:07:41 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs In-Reply-To: References: <0f57f9d8248db61cba34372814d2f45e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <20160630170740.GA30017@mercury.ccil.org> Dan Cross scripsit: > I've never understood why IBM didn't just write a real OS in a > high-level language instead of saddling the world with MS-DOS. I think because to IBM "a real OS" meant MVS. The difference between Unix and MS-DOS simply wasn't visible to them. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Don't be so humble. You're not that great. --Golda Meir