On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:21:44 +0200 Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. It prompted me to do the same, particularly in some terminal software I wrote part of around that time. The commands could be abbreviated as long as they stayed unique, modelled on my experience of TOPS-10 a bit earlier. (the software was called YAROE - Yet Another Rewrite Of Everything) _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
