[TUHS] Recovered!!! The Georgia Tech Software Tools Subystemfor Prime Computers
arnold at skeeve.com
arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Sep 26 16:27:34 AEST 2019
Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> Jason Stevens wrote:
> > Oh well, I guess it’s not possible to distribute the emulator?
>
> From what I hear, the main problem is that it's not possible to
> distribute PRIMOS. Which is a shame; it does have Emacs so it must be a
> nice operating system.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
It was bizarre and ugly. The only thing that made it anywhere
near usable were the Software Tools.
There's a reason Prime died pretty quickly once Unix started to
spread. The architecture also was strange; the characters used
mark parity (8th bit always on).
My 2 cents.
Arnold
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