17 Jan
2014
17 Jan
'14
8:41 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
I have 9-track tapes of UMAX/V for Encore Multimax systems that really
need to be archived to a more sable/suitable media.
From my
standpoint the OS that comes to mind is GCOS-8.
One of the most historically significant operating systems that?s likely to be in the
?not to be found? category would be THE. (See ?The THE Operating system? by Dijkstra. It
is where the principles of ring based design and synchronizing by semaphores was
invented.) Maybe, just maybe, it might exist in the form of listings, and since it?s a
fairly small body of assembly language code that might be good enough. Then there would
be the problem of the emulation, though I do know one is being worked on, and at least one
real machine might also still exist.
Come to think of it, I recently read a document about the first Algol-60 compiler ?
consisting of a design description, the full (assembly language) source code, and a Pascal
equivalent.