DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/8/18 1:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> On 12/8/18 9:50 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>
>> What I know about first-hand was all the research on The
>>
>> Software Tools Virtual Operating System.  I had worked with
>>
>> it  on Pr1me and Univac-1100 back in the 80's.  I got interested
>>
>> in it again and started searching for it.  Could not find anything
>>
>> but was able to get in touch with Deborah Scherrer who was
>>
>> one of the primaries on the research and she informed me that
>>
>> she had sent all her work to USENIX who held it a few years
>>
>> and then just trashed  it.  I have since found some of it, but
>>
>> places that had done the ports (GA Tech for the Pr1me.) had
>>
>> also just scrapped it all when it was no longer of interest.
>>
>> Truly sad how much of our history has been lost.
>>
>>
>> bill
>>
>>
> I chased that same windmill a few years ago including talking to Deborah.
> I turned up some tapes of code from LBL (same as the Structured Languages tape) but I've never
> found anything for Pr1me


Do they include the sources?  Are they up on bitsavers anywhere?

My reason for looking for Pr1me was that they were one of the most

complete at the time I was working with it.   I would love to get a

full set of later sources and revive it just for fun.  Nobody seems to

realize that they had accomplished POSIX long before the concept

was even given thought.


I see it as being just like UCSD-Pascal.  An idea ahead of its time

that got dropped only to be reinvented decades later.


bill