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

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Sep 26 16:09:48 AEST 2019


It has always worked for me, or I wouldn't have put it in the README.
Sounds like a network issue on your end.

(Now, why someone would go out of their way to work on Primos is another
question.  I *never* used it directly, but only via the SWT subsystem.
At Georgia Tech, we logged straigt into SWT.)

Arnold

Jason Stevens <jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:

> I see mention of an emulator in the GitHub repo, but I don’t see any emulator that is available.
>
> Am I reading this wrong?
>
> All that is mentioned is a telnet address to something that just drops.
>
> From: Deborah Scherrer
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 5:46 AM
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystemfor Prime Computers
>
> 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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