Oregon Software Pascal (was RE: RT11 / RSTS-E games

[Jerome H. Fine]

 >Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On 2015-05-11 16:43, Zane Healy wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 11, 2015, at 6:18 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
>>
>>>>> OMSI actual stands for (at least originally) Oregon Museum of 
>>>>> Science and Industry, and yes, they were creators of software that 
>>>>> ended up being commercialized.
>>>>>
>>>>>     paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's still what it stands for, and they're still around.
>>>
>>>
>>> They are? We should talk to them about getting the OMSI Pascal 
>>> released then. There are things I'd like to improve in there... :-)
>>>
>>>     Johnny
>>
>>
>> Good luck trying to find anyone there that knows that they had 
>> anything to do with PDP-11's.  They moved at some point in the late 
>> 80's or early 90's, at which time they became far less interesting.  
>> I never knew they did anything PDP-11 related until the late-90's, 
>> thanks in part to this list.
>>
>> http://www.omsi.edu
>
>
>
> Hmm. That turned out to be slightly different than what I expected... :-)
> But anyway, OMSI Pascal was carried on by Oregon Software, which if I 
> understand things right was a spinoff from OMSI. That is the company I 
> would like to find the remnants of. 

It took me a few days to locate the manuals and check the date
on the PASCAL.SAV file.  The manual has PASCAL-2 V2.1D
and the file is 397 blocks with a date of 19-Sep-1985.  There is
also a PASCAL.OBJ file with the libraries.

For some reason, there must have been some development after
1999, so there is also a patched file which provides the correct
date on the listing file which is generated.  The patch is less than
a dozen extra instructions and consists of a subroutine call which
checks the 2 high order bits of the date to determine the correct
year under RT-11.  There are no corresponding patches for the
libraries at this time.

If anyone is able to sort out the IP aspects, I can make the files
available along with the manuals which are in poor condition.

Jerome Fine