3 Aug
2021
3 Aug
'21
4:18 p.m.
On 8/3/21 4:51 PM, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:
A lot of third-party software that ran on Pr1me has been lost.
EDv Editor was nice. Written in Fortran. A really good version
of APL. The best and most complete version of The Software Tools
Virtual Operating System from GA Tech. And others I can not recall
the names of at the moment. When I was doing Pr1mes we had all of
it. I even did a port of The UNaXcess BBS system as an interface
to USENET.
People have talked about porting other old OSes to modern hardware
if the sources hadn't been lost. I would love to have a shot at
porting Primos to run on x86-64 or even ARM.
bill
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Dennis Boone
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Sent: 03 August 2021 21:31
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Help reading a 9 track tape
Well you could ask Silverfrost who now own it. I think a lot of Salford
Pr1me software was lost.
I wish I could find the X.25 software we wrote...
It was intended to be a stop-gap, to be discarded
when the ICL was >
replaced with PR1ME. However the PR1ME was benchmarked with
Fortran
66.
When Pr1me Fortran 77 was delivered its
performance was "pants" so the
"stop gap" ICL compiler was ported to PR1ME...
Wish we could find that Prime compiler. I think there were one or two
others, as well.