11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
8:25 p.m.
On 11/03/2011, at 10:01 PM, Wolfgang Eichberger wrote:
Here's a little sum-up about Systems I didn't came across so far:
CAPS-11, CTS-300 and -500, DSM-11, DURESS, GAMMA-11, HT-11, MERTS,
Micropower Pascal, MONECS, MTS, PC-11, RUST/XM, SPHERE, TRAX
If you have any information about the Operating Systems mentioned in
this message or can help out with disk images, disks, sources etc. I'd
greatly appreciate if you'd drop a line.
OK, I have a little information about MONECS (Monash University Educational Computing
System). This was a joint project between Monash University and Digital Equipment
Australia. It consisted of a card reader - using mark sense or the push out the chad with
a paper clip cards (do these cards have a real name?), a PDP-11 (perhaps an 11/23+ -
it's been a while and I'm more a 36bit kind of guy) and a printer (LA-120
perhaps). It supported Fortran, Pascal and COBOL (and probably other languages as well).
It was a real batch system - students would stand in a queue for the card reader, load
their deck, push the start read button and it would compile (to a pseudo-code), run (if
possible) and produce a listing.
Eventually (at least at La Trobe University where I worked), it was moved to run on a
VAX-11/780. How this was done (emulation mode, recompile) I don't know. I could ask
around if anyones interested but I doubt if it's still available.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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