> On Oct 23, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Bob Eager <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:07:33 -0400
> Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ...
>
>> RT-11 is very clean. I've worked with V2A (the FB version when
>> possible, SJ when I didn't have enough memory). They are very simple
>> and compact; the UI is the old TOPS-10 style, not the newer bloated
>> "DCL" interface. So a V2 era edition would be a good way to go.
>
> Yes, it's very nice. Someone once gave me electronic copies of some
> sources (circa 1975) and I read them with glee. Lovely comments, too:
> the system call dispatcher had the comment "What's it going to be then,
> eh?" from the Clockwork Orange. I think those comments were only in the
> FB monitor.
Yes. They were the work of the FB designer, Anton Chernoff, later my mentor in
college. I lifted the idea later on; some of the DECnet/E source code has neat
quotes in it. Unfortunately, those aren't so visible because DECnet/E sources
were never distributed... :-(
paul
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