Way off-topic for IBM-MAIN, but based on prior threads some of y'all might be interested in this.
Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling. --Robert B Wilson English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe Pierret [for Alain LaBonté] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ClassicMainframes] multics source is now open Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:47:03 -0000 From: peter_flass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy! ===== Forwarded Message ===== http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/ The source of MR12.5, dumped at CGI in Calgary in 2000, "is provided and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge. This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system." This is the full source, including the PL/I compiler source, as well as the .compin source for several Multics manuals. This message is for a few folks who have waited a long time for this. If you have time, look over the pages and see how they work for you. Feel free to pass the URL on. Early next week I will add links from pages at www.multicians.org to the MIT pages. A few days later I'll post a message to alt.os.multics. Somewhere in that time frame, presumably, the news will be picked up by slashdot etc, and the site will become very overloaded for a while. That's one reason I am letting the information out in phases. In the long term, I would like to see us develop finding aids, ways of linking to particular source statements, and a hypertextual way of commenting on and explaining specific code. Imagine having a dialogue where the original programmer explains why the code was written a certain way, the assumptions made at the time, and perhaps how it would be done today. Anyway this is a great day, a long time coming. Thanks to all who helped make it possible. Enjoy MR 12.5. regards, tom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
