26 Sep
2015
26 Sep
'15
11 p.m.
Not sure if it's relevant:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordMARC
My brother was one of the few engineers on this product, in Palo Alto. The software ran on
dozens of different machines and architectures, using the most portable language of the
day: Fortran 77. I believe MARC was the umbrella name/company for a number of different
products.
He got me a summer job there - I had to print out the sources and then make copies for
everyone. We also wired the offices with rs-232 runs to the PRIME lurking in the basement.
Formative years...
Sent from my teeny little terminal.
On Sep 26, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
(BTW, My memory of that acronym is "Machine Assisted Resource
Coordinator", a small-sized Unix work-alike developed by Ed Ziemba (RIP)
using Leor Zolman's BDS C compiler).
I'm having trouble finding much about this system; most of it is on your
web page and the Wikipedia page for BDS C, which appears to borrow quite
a bit from your page. Was MARC an OS itself, or a Unix-like layer on
CP/M? Is it available to download and play with?
--
Eric Christopherson