DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

[Al Kossow]

On 12/8/18 9:50 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:

> What I know about first-hand was all the research on The
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> Software Tools Virtual Operating System.  I had worked with
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> it  on Pr1me and Univac-1100 back in the 80's.  I got interested
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> in it again and started searching for it.  Could not find anything
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> but was able to get in touch with Deborah Scherrer who was
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> one of the primaries on the research and she informed me that
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> she had sent all her work to USENIX who held it a few years
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> and then just trashed  it.  I have since found some of it, but
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> places that had done the ports (GA Tech for the Pr1me.) had
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> also just scrapped it all when it was no longer of interest.
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> Truly sad how much of our history has been lost.
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> 
> bill
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> 

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