[TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystem for Prime Computers

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Wed Sep 25 16:17:12 AEST 2019


Thanks Deborah. But if you want to send flowers, send them to Scott
Lee; he's the one who had the tapes and drove getting them recovered.
"All" I did was get things usable for github. :-)

Arnold

Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Awesome!!!   Arnold, you're a saint!!!!
> D
>
> On 9/24/19 12:45 PM, Arnold Robbins wrote:
> > Hello All.
> >
> > Believed lost in the mists of time for over 30 years, the Georgia Tech
> > Software Tools Subsystem for Prime Computers, along with the Georgia Tech
> > C Compiler for Prime Computers, have been recovered!
> >
> > The source code and documentation (and binary files) are available in a
> > Github repo: https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/gt-swt.
> >
> > The README.md there provides some brief history and credits with respect
> > to the recovery, and w.r.t. the subsystem and C compilers themselves.
> >
> > Credit to Scott Lee for making and keeping the tapes and driving the
> > recovery process, and to Dennis Boone and yours truly for contributing
> > financially.  I set up the repo.
> >
> > For anyone who used and/or contributed to this software, we hope you'll
> > enjoy this trip down memory lane.
> >
> > Feel free to forward this note to interested parties.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > Arnold Robbins
> > (On behalf of the swt recovery team. :-)


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