On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
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> Joy would create sockets/bind et al in response to the CMU Accent System
> that they were building for DARPA on the triple-drip PERQs.
Is "triple-drip" a joke on Three Rivers?
Sorry - yes, force of habit of many years ago,
I suppose I should be happy that my fingers did not call the Perq by it's sometimes (CMU) name, the "PascAlto." A number of my friends and colleagues in those days made money by working over there.
That said, I do miss the GPD - aka the Graphics Wonder which was, IMHO, their best product. A vector graphics system with a dedicated PDP-11. Some of the coolest programs I ever ran on the CMU PDP-10's displayed on the "GDPs." I still have a technical manual for it and have had a private dream of trying to put it into simh to try to resurrect some of those old codes (ah yes -- something else for my retirement "bucket list" - real work gets in the way).