A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL compiler for the Dec 10 I have the source code and files to the original Essex MUD. Unfortunately I think the compiler is lost, but I live in hope.
Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Feb 2018, at 15:06, Bob Nelson <rmkri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are people trying to preserve significant old computer designs and > operating systems in a form most likely to survive going forward such as > simh. There are also people trying to preserve significant old programs in a > form most likely to survive going forward. Being in a simh forum it isn't > surprising to find more of the first type. There is room for everyone and it > is all good. > >> On Feb 3, 2018, at 5:05 AM, Bob Eager <r...@tavi.co.uk> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500 >> Phil Budne <p...@ultimate.com> wrote: >> >>>> Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few >>>> others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known >>>> Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is >>>> much more readable and maintainable. >>> >>> To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably >>> pointless." >>> >>> To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes >>> a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming >>> jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)! >>> >>> I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data >>> structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them. >>> >>> (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html >> >> I agree about the silk purse comment. >> >> I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes. >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> Simh@trailing-edge.com >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
