4 Oct
2010
4 Oct
'10
4:56 p.m.
I came across a set of disks labeled "Janus CP/M-86 Compiler", "Janus
CP/M-86 Linker" and "Janus CP/M-86 Support" from RR Software. I presume
these have nothing to do with the Janus lanuage created in 1990[1], but
instead has something to do with reversible computing, if Wikipedia is
accurate on this. How rare is this find?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_(programming_language)
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4 Oct
4 Oct
4:59 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
I came across a set of disks labeled "Janus CP/M-86 Compiler", "Janus
CP/M-86 Linker" and "Janus CP/M-86 Support" from RR Software. ?I presume
these have nothing to do with the Janus lanuage created in 1990[1], but
instead has something to do with reversible computing, if Wikipedia is
accurate on this. ?How rare is this find?
RR software produced (and still produces) Ada compilers. Janus was
their implementation for (I believe) a subset of the Ada language.
I'd say finding this for CP/M-86 is pretty rare.
Mark
5:03 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Mark Davidson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, David Griffith
<dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
I found their website just now -- interesting. If anyone associated with
a museum wants these disks (I'm looking at you Al Kossow), please let me
know and I'll donate them. Otherwise, it goes on ebay.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
I came across a set of disks labeled "Janus CP/M-86 Compiler", "Janus
CP/M-86 Linker" and "Janus CP/M-86 Support" from RR Software. ?I presume
these have nothing to do with the Janus lanuage created in 1990[1], but
instead has something to do with reversible computing, if Wikipedia is
accurate on this. ?How rare is this find?
RR software produced (and still produces) Ada compilers. Janus was
their implementation for (I believe) a subset of the Ada language.
I'd say finding this for CP/M-86 is pretty rare.
5:06 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:03 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Mark Davidson wrote:
In my mind, the fact that they are for CP/M-86 is what makes them
rare. Since RR is still in business, you can still get their
software, which is great... but I've never seen Janus for CP/M-86
*anywhere*. :) If I collected CP/M-86 software, I'd want them.
Mark
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, David Griffith
<dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
wrote:
I found their website just now -- interesting. ?If anyone associated with a
museum wants these disks (I'm looking at you Al Kossow), please let me know
and I'll donate them. ?Otherwise, it goes on ebay.
I came across a set of disks labeled "Janus CP/M-86 Compiler", "Janus
CP/M-86 Linker" and "Janus CP/M-86 Support" from RR Software. ?I presume
these have nothing to do with the Janus lanuage created in 1990[1], but
instead has something to do with reversible computing, if Wikipedia is
accurate on this. ?How rare is this find?
RR software produced (and still produces) Ada compilers. ?Janus was
their implementation for (I believe) a subset of the Ada language.
I'd say finding this for CP/M-86 is pretty rare.
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