21 Jun
2011
21 Jun
'11
3:43 p.m.
On 6/21/11 1:56 PM, "Rich Alderson" <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
Hi, RichC,
I'm afraid not. The original code is the private property of Paul Allen,
though Microsoft used later versions in its language business for many
years. (A friend of mine was the maintainer/developer of Microsoft's
tool chain back in the 1970s and 1980s. He appears in the famous picture
of the team from Albuquerque.)
We have talked to Mr. Allen about the possibility of making this available,
but he has not responded either way.
He used the simulator and original source code to create the Altair BASIC
which he demonstrated during his interview with Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes,
so a working copy (other than the DDT) does exist. We'll announce its
availability, when and if we get permission to put it up.
RichA:
Thanks again. I hope Paul ultimately decides to release it for
educational purposes -- it would be an interesting read. Always looking to
learn something new, I actually downloaded some of the PDP-10 manuals to
peruse (not having experience with the 10 myself -- I did own for a while an
11/34 though).
Regards,
Rich
--
Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.com
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini