[TUHS] Some old DECtapes from Dennis Ritchie
Phil Budne
phil at ultimate.com
Sun Jul 16 12:35:22 AEST 2023
On July 11th, Warren wrote:
> All, way back when, Dennis sent me some DECtape images to look after. I've
> put some of them in the Unix Archive (the s1 and s2 tapes) as they contained
> Unix source code or binaries. The others I kept aside as they didn't contain
> Unix code, or they were potentially sensitive.
>
> .... I've decided to put
> all the tapes that Dennis gave me here:
>
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/
In https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/README
Are notes (apparently written by DMR):
dmr
Random stuff from my directory. Most probable dates: 1972.
....
pig.b is an interesting artifact: it is a B program
that echoes what you type in Pig latin. (Incidentally,
there is a translation of this program into C, dated 1978,
in a subdirectory that still spins on a disk attached to
the Unix machine where I get my mail.)
This jiggled a nerve in my brain, that FINALLY connected.
The TMG manual in the Multics System-Programmer's Manual by Robert
R. Fenichel and M. D. Mcilroy, pub. April 17, 1967 has a sample TMG
program to translate english to Pig Latin.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/Multics-Documents/MSPM/bn-4-02.670417.tmgl-reference.pdf#page=31
It appears (in translation) as a test to a port of PDP-11 TMG:
https://github.com/amakukha/tmg/blob/master/test/086_pig_latin/pig_latin.t
I haven't yet compared pig.b to the program in the TMG manual.
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