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From: arrigo at alchemistowl.org (Arrigo Triulzi)
Subject: [COFF] Book about the Sprint/Spartan ("Safeguard") hardware/software
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:55:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0B3DD4D1-26E0-4774-8CEB-E38D4556CF70@alchemistowl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414C850D-093F-47CA-A6E3-12EF9F01D511@alchemistowl.org>

Quoting myself.. sorry

> On 22 Jan 2020, at 19:47, Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo at alchemistowl.org> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a book or in-depth article about the Sprint/Spartan system, named Safeguard, hardware and software?
> 
> There is very little about it available online (see http://www.nuclearabms.info/Computers.html) but it was apparently an amazing programming effort running on UNIVAC.

I should have added that there is some material online here:

https://www.srmsc.org/dps2010.html

Linking to this Bell Labs history paper:

https://www.srmsc.org/ref1040.html

(and some contributions from specific authors about their subsystems).

Arrigo




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