From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: lars@nocrew.org, jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystemfor Prime Computers
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:27:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201909260627.x8Q6RYGq017933@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wblv7zid0.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
> Jason Stevens wrote:
> > Oh well, I guess it’s not possible to distribute the emulator?
>
> From what I hear, the main problem is that it's not possible to
> distribute PRIMOS. Which is a shame; it does have Emacs so it must be a
> nice operating system.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
It was bizarre and ugly. The only thing that made it anywhere
near usable were the Software Tools.
There's a reason Prime died pretty quickly once Unix started to
spread. The architecture also was strange; the characters used
mark parity (8th bit always on).
My 2 cents.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-24 19:45 [TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystem for " Arnold Robbins
2019-09-24 21:29 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-09-25 6:17 ` arnold
2019-09-26 5:59 ` [TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystemfor " Jason Stevens
2019-09-26 6:03 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-09-26 6:08 ` Jason Stevens
2019-09-26 6:13 ` arnold
2019-09-26 6:23 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-09-26 6:27 ` arnold [this message]
2019-09-26 13:28 ` [TUHS] [COFF] [was TUHS] Pr1me and GT-SWT Clem Cole
2019-09-26 6:09 ` [TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystemfor Prime Computers arnold
2019-09-26 13:28 ` Nemo
2019-09-26 14:54 ` SPC
2019-09-26 15:48 ` Jason Stevens
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