On 2016-10-26 21:14, Paul Koning wrote:
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... :-(
That practice were clearly also around in the software for the PDP-8. I
remember quite some enjoyment reading about the financial state of the
Pony Express in the mid 19th century in the FORTRAN-IV runtime system.
Johnny
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