8 Dec
2018
8 Dec
'18
10:19 a.m.
On 12/8/18 1:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 12/8/18 9:50 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Do they include the sources?? Are they up on bitsavers anywhere?
My reason for looking for Pr1me was that they were one of the most
complete at the time I was working with it.?? I would love to get a
full set of later sources and revive it just for fun.? Nobody seems to
realize that they had accomplished POSIX long before the concept
was even given thought.
I see it as being just like UCSD-Pascal.? An idea ahead of its time
that got dropped only to be reinvented decades later.
bill
What I know about first-hand was all the research
on The
Software Tools Virtual Operating System.? I had worked with
it? on Pr1me and Univac-1100 back in the 80's.? I got interested
in it again and started searching for it.? Could not find anything
but was able to get in touch with Deborah Scherrer who was
one of the primaries on the research and she informed me that
she had sent all her work to USENIX who held it a few years
and then just trashed? it.? I have since found some of it, but
places that had done the ports (GA Tech for the Pr1me.) had
also just scrapped it all when it was no longer of interest.
Truly sad how much of our history has been lost.
bill
I chased that same windmill a few years ago including talking to Deborah.
I turned up some tapes of code from LBL (same as the Structured Languages tape) but
I've never
found anything for Pr1me