[cctalk] Re: More ALGOL-68

> On Jan 6, 2024,Mark Kahrs > wrote: > > I remember circa 1977 CMU had a PDP-11 compiler for '68 with an extensive > runtime component. > I presume the sources are lost. > > Peter Hibbard was the guy responsible if I recall. Yes, Peter was the author, and he also

[cctalk] Re: WICAT Systems

Some models (e.g., the 150) supported Multibus. In the early 1980s at Tandem Austin we used one with a SUN graphics board in a Multibus slot to prototype a 68000 workstation we were building (but that never became a product). Al Kossow has lots of information about Wicat in bitsavers. Here’s a

Re: Early Programming Books

1955: An Introduction to Automatic Computers (Ned Chapin ) I have the second edition — copyright 1963. Chapter 8 is “Elements of Programming” with a fully-worked out assembly language example for a hypothetical

Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

> On Apr 1, 2021, at 10:00 AM,Al Kossow > wrote: > > > Interpress had nothing to do with the Alto > > Talk to Paul McJones re. Interpress translation I included Press-to-{PostScript,PDF} conversion in the program that generated http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org,

Re: IBM vacuum tubes

Not exactly on subject, but problems designing the IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch due to the use of existing vacuum tube designs is discussed in section 2.4 of: Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh IBM’s Early Computers The MIT Press, 1986 The book says

Re: Algol W [was: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC]

On May 27, 2020, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Al Kossow wrote: >>> Algol W was from Eroupe? >> Algol W was from Stanford, written by Wirth when he was there > > I wonder if there's any connection to Stanford's SAIL language? Good question. I believe the answer is “Wirth was initially involved with

Re: Algol W [was: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC]

> On May 26, 2020, Al Kossow wrote: > > On 5/26/20 6:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> >> >>> Algol W was from Eroupe? >> >> Algol W was from Stanford, written by Wirth when he was there > > Actually, by Dick Sites > >

Re: Anyone heard of the S1 Operating System

Googling for "multisolutions inc. s1 operating system" turned up several mentions from ComputerWorld, an S1 operating system pin at Etsy, plus this blog post: http://mathisliberalarts.blogspot.com/2012/03/?m=0 > One day at Burroughs I received a phone call from a recruiter. Usually I > don’t

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

for supplying ACM with scans of AFIPS and perhaps more.) > On Dec 30, 2018, at 5:04 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > > >> On Dec 30, 2018, at 2:37 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> Chuck, >> >> I’ve found the Living Compu

RE: Original CAD code in the wild?

Also, the computer history museum has a listing, so someone might be interested in getting the original code running on an emulator: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903 > On May 26, 2018, at 10:00 AM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: > > I don't know if any source is still

Re: Original CAD code in the wild?

Randy, Although there are people interested in collecting historic software (especially source code), I don’t know of a central place to discuss it. I’ve collected the original IBM 704 Fortran/Fortran II compiler, the original IBM 709x Lisp II interpreter, and various other things (see

Re: COMTRAN [was: IEEE publishes "In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler" ...]

> On Aug 28, 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > Related to this, did Bob Bemer ever preserve a copy of IBM COMTRAN > source? For those unaware of it, this was one of the predecessors of > COBOL. > … It turns out that Paul Pierce’s IBSYS source tapes [1] include a version of the IBM COMTRAN (aka CT

Free if you pick them up: Byte, Dr. Dobbs, People’s Computers, FORTH Dimensions, MacWorld, ...

If you can pick these up at my home in Mountain View, CA you are welcome to them. BYTE 1975-1976: #1, #2, #4, #5, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16 1977 V2 #1-#12 1978 V3 #1-#3 1979 V4 #8 LISP 1980 V5 #8 FORTH 1981 V6 #8 SMALLTALK 1982 V7 #8 LOGO 1983 V8 #8 C 1984 V9 #8 MODULA-2 1985 V10