From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu (Deborah Scherrer) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:37:33 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Reorganising the Unix Archive? (GNU?) In-Reply-To: <201702201827.v1KIR4PR012916@freefriends.org> References: <4FBE38B7-39C6-4391-9E0B-D5E72C77EC84@superglobalmegacorp.com> <20170220065013.GB19194@minnie.tuhs.org> <3DFEF92B-A41D-4023-B098-5E7E33944446@superglobalmegacorp.com> <201702200908.v1K983DP011135@freefriends.org> <201702201112.v1KBCwVE017990@freefriends.org> <3fff4d4b-7977-aec1-b62d-fe2e23d79ecd@solar.stanford.edu> <201702201827.v1KIR4PR012916@freefriends.org> Message-ID: <42e98887-0440-3903-65f8-cd35e772508c@solar.stanford.edu> 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 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