[TUHS] Hypothetical: Could MULTICS have been written in C, if available?

[Alexis via TUHS]

Adam Thornton via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:

> But in this day and age, *can* you?  You can feel the machine if 
> that
> machine is a PDP-11.  But with a modern pipelined SMP 
> architecture, with
> prefetch and speculative execution and all that stuff...I don't 
> think any
> human *can* feel the machine anymore.

Obligatory link to the 2018 piece "C is Not a Low-level Language":

  https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479&doi=10.1145%2F3212477.3212479


Alexis.