From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Reorganising the Unix Archive? (GNU?)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:56:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201702201856.v1KIu5Xo014457@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42e98887-0440-3903-65f8-cd35e772508c@solar.stanford.edu>
I didn't realize the GT guys started with your stuff. I think it diverged
and there were definitely things developed at GT but I won't claim to
know who did what, since it was mature by the time I became involved
with it. It was very tuned for the Pr1mes.
In any case, please do contribute.
Thanks!
Arnold
Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I was one of the 3 primary authors of the Software Tools system (along
> with Dennis Hall and Joe Sventek), and I was the founder of the users
> group. (Also served a long time on the Usenix Board, was even president
> for a while.) Yes, the Georgia Tech stuff was from our system. And, we
> expanded extensively beyond the tape that was available with the
> Kernighan/Plauger book.
>
> I would be pleased to contribute our code to the archive. Thanks.
>
> Deborah
>
> On 2/20/17 10:27 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > Hi Debborah.
> >
> > I don't know if we ever met but I certainly recognize your name
> > from the Software Tools work.
> >
> > The original Ratfor and Pascal versions of the tools from the
> > Kernighan and Plauger books are already in the archive, donated
> > by yours truly many years ago. (They're from the tapes Addison Wesley
> > would sell you at the time.)
> >
> > Nontheless, I think it would be WONDERFUL to have the enhanced
> > tools you folks did in the archives.
> >
> > Please contribute them!
> >
> > Arnold
> >
> > P.S. I've asked before, but maybe there are more people around now...
> >
> > I was involved with the Georgia Tech subsystem for Pr1me computers which
> > also built a very Unix like environment in an enhnaced Ratfor to run
> > on top of Primos. Some of the doc is archived, and I have some paper
> > copies, but I'd love to see that code unearthed...
> >
> > I've made a very few bits that were ported to C are available under
> > http://github.com/arnoldrobbins, and the 'se' editor has been revived
> > by Thomas Cort at se-editor.org, but that's all in C.
> >
> > If anyone has a tape, I might have a program that could extract
> > it under *nix.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to add the Software Tools to the Unix archive. As you may
> >> remember, Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger wrote a book about
> >> developing Unix-like code for non-Unix systems. We at the Lawrence
> >> Berkeley Lab took that idea and ran with it. We eventually produced a
> >> set of Unix utilities and a system interface that could be reproduced on
> >> virtually any operating system. This was freely distributed and
> >> eventually the package was put up on over 50 different
> >> computers/systems. There was a user group of about 2000. The movement
> >> earned one of the Usenix Flame Awards, way back when.
> >>
> >> We have the original tapes produced at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, plus a
> >> Pascal version, plus a version for CP/M. We would like to add these to
> >> the Unix archive, if you think it appropriate.
> >>
> >> Deborah
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-20 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-20 6:14 Jason Stevens
2017-02-20 6:50 ` Warren Toomey
2017-02-20 7:00 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-20 7:23 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-20 9:08 ` arnold
2017-02-20 9:59 ` jsteve
2017-02-20 11:12 ` arnold
2017-02-20 16:46 ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-02-20 18:27 ` arnold
2017-02-20 18:37 ` Deborah Scherrer
2017-02-20 18:56 ` arnold [this message]
2017-02-20 19:46 ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-20 7:10 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-20 7:19 ` Jason Stevens
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