20 Sep
2020
20 Sep
'20
6:01 p.m.
On Sep 17, 2020, at 19:18, Michael Kerpan wrote:
Something in another recent thread about LISP machines
got me wondering:
how many early graphical systems are well emulated (or emulated at all)? I
know that there are more or less functional emulations of Alto, Star, and
Lisa out there, but what about the various LISP machines or the early
workstations (Sun 68K, Apollo, etc) Also, assuming that there are emulators
for some of these systems out there, has any software to run on them and
been archived?
Something in the "early graphical" space that I think may be difficult or
impossible to emulate: the Culler-Fried Online System. I think it was built around an IBM
360 and operated at one site (UCSB) late 1960s into 1970s with the goal of running a
particular educational/research application programming environment, CHM has one of the
dual keyboards, and I am not at all certain that software exists. Not so early to
timesharing (late 1960s) but using storage scopes for graphical output terminals.
Al has a couple manuals in <http://bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfCalSantaBarbara/>. So we
can get some idea of what it was like.
-Frank McConnell