Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

[Chris Zach]

	NL7776			/SETUP -2
	TAD	(-7776)		/COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE
	SZA CLA			/SKIP IF OK
	JMP	IMA8S		/JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER

/	IF WE GET HERE, WE'RE NOT A PDP-8/S.

Ok, that made me laugh.....

C

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
>