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Re:how to compile all the Multics source code?

From harry reed <doon386@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.multics
Subject Re:how to compile all the Multics source code?
Date 2018-11-03 10:44 -0700
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"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> Wrote in message:
> http://web.mit.edu/multics-historyThe source code to Multics 12.5 November 1992 operating system per se has been entirely or mostly open sourced.  But what about the PL/I compiler utilized to compile Multics?  Has the source code to the ?entire? PL/I compiler been open sourced?  (I see some portions of the source code marked "damaged".)What percentage of the Multics PL/I compiler's source code has been open-sourced?  The source code to version 2 of the Multics PL/I compiler seems to be available here (as a concatenated archive of all the source-code files into a single Multics-segment/file): http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics/ldd/system_library_standard/source/bound_pl1_.1.s.archive Likewise, what percentage of the EC compiler has been open sourced?Likewise, what percentage of the Multics operating system proper's source code has been open-sourced?  Is that number actually 100%.What source code that is ??directly related?? to Multics (PL/I compiler; EC compiler; ALM assembler) remains not publicly available?  Or in other words, how close are we to actually resurrecting Multics compiled today from source code (instead of old binaries executed by a emulator of the 6180/Level66 processor); where are the source-code gaps?

Pretty close to 100% coverage. We have rebuilt both the os and pli
 compilers to fix bugs.

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how to compile all the Multics source code? "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> - 2018-11-03 08:39 -0700
  Re:how to compile all the Multics source code? harry reed <doon386@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 10:44 -0700
    Re: how to compile all the Multics source code? "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> - 2018-11-03 11:02 -0700
      Re: how to compile all the Multics source code? harry reed <doon386@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 13:43 -0800
    Re: how to compile all the Multics source code? "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> - 2018-11-03 12:56 -0700
      Re: how to compile all the Multics source code? harry reed <doon386@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 13:52 -0800

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