21 Oct
1999
21 Oct
'99
7:19 a.m.
I am just starting to go through the software I got
with the 8/s and I don't
know what some of these older tapes did:
5/8-9 [(PDP 5/8) - Tape #9] - Analysis of Variance
5/8-15 - A.T.E.P.O. Program
5/8-45 - Remote Time Shared III System
5/8-54 - Tic Tac Toe Learning Program (figured this one out)
8/8s -77 - Dual Process Sys.
Some of these I can tell what they did by the name but does anyone have any
information about any of them? (I haven't had time to go through all the
documentation yet).
I can't help specifically with the PDP-8 DECUS paper tapes, but I can offer
some general clues:
DECUS software starts with the model that it runs on - in your case, a
PDP-5 or a PDP-8 - and is followed by a sequence number. So "5/8-45" is
the 45th program for the PDP-5 or PDP-8.
A "S" after the model number signifies either a symposium collection or
a "special" collection.
Your 5/8-9 tape is a general statistical tool that falls into the
"ANOVA" class.
For an index of how these numbers apply to PDP-11 (i.e. "11-" and
"11S"
series) DECUS software, see
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/decus/
for several hundred DECUS 11-series abstracts.
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