17 Oct
2012
17 Oct
'12
3:59 p.m.
Speaking of interesting 8080/z80 operating systems, anyone out there on
the list besides me (and the two people I mention below) ever play with
Ed Ziemba's MARC operating system (very Unix like, for the 8080 - but
never published, because Ed Ziemba passed away in an unfortunate
snorkeling accident)
At least two other people had some access do it, those being Leor Zolman
(BDS C, in which MARC was written - http://www.bdsoft.com/about.html)
and one Lauren Weinstein, DBA Vortex Technology -- who might be (it
seems very likely) this guy: http://lauren.vortex.com/.
I still have some copies (the latest being the CP/M hosted/"parasitic"
boot version B.9 and root file system B.3), and some paper documentation.
I am sending Lauren a note and see what he might know about MARC's
status, Intellectual Property wise or if he knows of any way it might be
released without having to trespass on the copyright, which presumably
would exist for 70 years after Ed Ziemba's passing.
Jay Jaeger
The Computer Collection
On 10/17/2012 5:36 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to play with the OASIS operating system for the Altos 5-15
(downloaded from Dave's site). After logging in I get the '>' prompt.
Apparently, they use some kind of stack within their CLI as I can use it
as an RPN calculator (just like FORTH in OpenBoot environments). The
usual candidates like DIR, CAT etc. aren't recognized, LIST gives 'File
name missing', LIST * gives 'File extenstion missing', and LIST *.*
gives, well, nothing.
So, does anybody have (preferrably a scan of) the OASIS user's manual?
Christian