From: James Frew <frew@ucsb.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [tuhs] Early statistical software in Unix
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:26:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b0285c2-ce2d-4f92-ac74-5dc62f16a6fa@ucsb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1718127774.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>
Well, at least one copy of the source code escaped: I compiled and ran
it on a Sun-3 server at UCSB ca. 1980. As I recall it was a formidable
wad of Fortran. Alas, it's long gone: any backups extant would be on
media likely too deteriorated to read, even if we had the hardware to
read it.
Cheers,
/Frew
On 2024-06-11 10:42, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Doug McIlroy kindly sent me contact information for John Chambers,
> co-author of the cited book about the S system. I have just heard
> back from John, who offered a link to his summary paper from the
> 2020 HOPL conference proceedings
>
> S, R, and data science
> https://doi.org/10.1145/3386334
>
> and reported that S was licensed to AT&T Unix customers only in binary
> form, and that the original source code may no longer exist.
>
> That is a definitive answer, even if not the one that I was hoping to
> find.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-12 0:26 UTC|newest]
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2024-06-11 17:42 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2024-06-12 0:26 ` James Frew [this message]
2024-06-12 9:01 ` Ralph Corderoy
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