1 Oct
2009
1 Oct
'09
11:48 a.m.
Seth Morabito wrote:
I think I asked about this several years ago, but I
thought I might
try my luck again.
Is anyone aware of any surviving ARPAnet IMP System Software, in any
form?
After talking with a person from BBN it might be possible to read
some old 7-track tapes with some code on them. Apparently the
earliest versions were written in PDP-1 assembler with macros.
Later a cross compiler was written for TENEX.
I'll dog it for a while and see what happens. I suppose the next
question is, "does anyone have docs on the Honeywell 516"? and
is there a simulator?
I'm game to write one for simh if there isn't one (but I'll hold
off if someone else has their heart set on it)
it might be more fun to write the pdp-1 assembler :-)
-brad
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