[TUHS] Looking back to 1981 - what pascal was popular on what unix?

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Sun Jan 30 08:06:15 AEST 2022



> On Jan 29, 2022, at 12:34 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 12:13:06PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> On Jan 29, 2022, at 11:59 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com <mailto:clemc at ccc.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Plus, the "Tunis" folks in Toronto had a Concurrent-Pascal and a UNIX-like system that ran on PDP-11s.
>> 
>> Tunis was implemented in Concurrent Euclid, a descendant of
>> the Euclid programming language, designed by Ric Hort and
>> James Cordy. 
> 
> I read the Tunis book, it seemed pretty cool from the book but I've never
> played with it.  Has anyone?

From Tunis I borrowed signal() & wait() as synchronization
primitives for the simulation library I wrote in 1983 but
that was about it.


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