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

[Larry McVoy]

So what did you think of Tunis compared to V6?

I really liked the book, I'm hoping it was good but reality is not always that.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 05:48:39PM -0500, GREEN wrote:
> I was one of the TAs for the grad course that produced Tunis. It was heavily influenced by V6 which we were running at the time. It was designed to run on a stripped down PDP11 so it could be used in a classroom. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jan 29, 2022, at 5:07 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ???
> > 
> >> 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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