Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 4/27/2020 9:58 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>     NL7776 /SETUP -2
>     TAD    (-7776)        /COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE
>     SZA CLA            /SKIP IF OK
>     JMP    IMA8S        /JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER
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> /    IF WE GET HERE, WE'RE NOT A PDP-8/S.
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> Ok, that made me laugh.....
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I never had any exchanges with Charles, well, none of significance, but he could be of rather, um, shall we say strong opinion on topics.

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John H. Reinhardt



> On 4/27/2020 10:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:08:24AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
>>> Charles Lasner.  He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to
>>> complications from the COVID-19 virus.  I'm fuzzy on his exact
>>> biography, but he was big in the development of OS/8 for the PDP-8 at
>>> DEC.  His current project was an update of OS/8 which he called
>>> P?S/8.  Apparently he owned multiple LINC-8's according to comments on
>>> the Facebook group.
>>
>> He also worked onKermit-12, for instance the code that identifies which
>> PDP-8 machine it is running on. It is quite fun to follow that code. It
>> can, impressively, separate between a PDP-5, LINC-8, PDP-12, Straight-8,
>> 8/S, 8/I, 8/L, 8/E, 8/A, 6100 and 6120.
>>
>> Here, search for "MACHINE,.-."
>> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/d/k12mit.pal
>>
>> A lot of PDP-8 know-how and trivia went with him, sorry to see him go.
>>
>> /P