What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

Charles Anthony charles.unix.pro at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 09:27:57 CST 2017


On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:24 PM, jim stephens <jwsmail at jwsss.com> wrote:

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> On 1/11/2017 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
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>> What about software?
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> BCPL IBM mainframe portability package (original time frame). Common now,
> not so common back in the day.
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> The kit was used with some efforts to port to minicomputers @ USL
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> Also got some Mathilda manuals from Aarhus
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> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/aarhusUnive
> rsity/pb/PB-34_An_Overview_of_the_MATHILDA_System_Aug74.pdf
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> We were running the simulator which was in BCPL on a Multics system.  The
> visit by the Mathilda hardware was canceled a year after I was there.
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>
Strictly speaking I don't own, but I have helped breathe life back into
some software; we have a working Multics BCPL compiler.  You can run that
software....

-- Charles


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