10 Aug
2015
10 Aug
'15
1:49 p.m.
Dennis is correct, the MTS source and binary tapes were released to the
public a few years back and the URL he quotes is the hub for everything
MTS. If you want to spin up an instance yourself from scratch, I wrote a
little tutorial some time ago that will distill down the installation
documentation for you, and notes a few potential snags:
http://wildflower.diablonet.net/~scaron/herculesmts.html
It's actually pretty easy to install and run MTS from scratch, in rather
stark contrast to many operating systems that ran on the 360/370 platform.
There are a wide variety of assemblers and compilers included; here's an
overview; just a few of them are broken (Pascal, C) but most run:
http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/discussions/programming-languag…
Have fun! MTS runs great on Hercules. I have an instance running pretty
much continuously on one of my servers and I'm always on there playing
around with old languages.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
The UMich guys have made available images of tapes
from many MTS
releases. Not all releases are complete. They've also provided a built
system of D6.0 (1986? -87?) with all the further changes it was running
just before shutdown in the 90s. (No tape images for this version yet.)
You may want to look at:
http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/
ASMH is a licensed program product, so they can't make it available.
MTS used a fairly heavily modified version of it. A lot of other
languages are included, though. There's a list on the above web site
somewhere of the license status of many things.
Source is included in the tapes. If the SHOW bits to which you refer
were shared amongst the consortium, and predate the release of D6.0,
they're quite likely in there somewhere. IIRC the copy of the MTS
manuals on bitsavers were actually freshly generated in the last few
years, so the thing might be referenced there.
De