From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cube1@charter.net (Jay Jaeger)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 21:36:52 -0500
Subject: [pups] Fwd: Re: Concurrent Pascal, Solo OS, et al
In-Reply-To: <200305182328.13320.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030520213524.03daedf0@cirithi>

I recall some folks at the University of Wisconsin playing with Concurrent 
Pascal.  I doubt that a copy survived, though.

Jay Jaeger

At 11:29 PM 5/18/2003 +1200, you wrote:
>I asked Per Brinch Hansen recently about Solo and Concurrent Pascal, for use
>on the PDP 11 simulators, et al, and I received a reply today.
>
>This is it.  I am wondering, does anyone have any clue as to where these
>copies of the system might be squirrelled away?  How many might've seen it at
>their Universities?
>
>Wesley Parish
>
>----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
>Subject: Re: Concurrent Pascal, Solo OS, et al
>Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 00:17:33 -0400
>From: Per Brinch Hansen <pbh at pothos.syr.edu>
>To: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
>Cc: Per Brinch Hansen <pbh at pothos.syr.edu>
>
>Date: 18 May 2003
>To: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
>From: Per Brinch Hansen <pbh at pothos.syr.edu>
>Subject: Re: Concurrent Pascal, Solo OS, et al
>
>On May 4, you wrote:
>
>   What I was wondering is, would it be worth asking you about
>   the possibility of your releasing the Concurrent Pascal, Solo
>   OS and several other such computer tools and programs, to PUPS
>   (the PDP Unix Preservation Society)?
>
>At Caltech we prepared a distribution tape for the PDP 11/45
>with the source text and portable code of the Solo system,
>including the Concurrent and Sequential Pascal compiler. The
>system reports were supplemented by implementation notes.
>
>By the spring of 1976 we had distributed the system to 75
>companies and 100 universities in 21 countries. Later, other
>people moved the system to the Interdata 8/32, NCR 8250,
>Modular 1, LSI 11, IBM 370/145 and many other computers.
>
>Sad to say, I no longer have a copy of the system (and I
>don't know who does).
>
>Per Brinch Hansen
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
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Jay R. Jaeger					The Computer Collection
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