[TUHS] [tuhs] Early statistical software in Unix

[James Frew]

Well, at least one copy of the source code escaped: I compiled and ran 
it on a Sun-3 server at UCSB ca. 1980. As I recall it was a formidable 
wad of Fortran. Alas, it's long gone: any backups extant would be on 
media likely too deteriorated to read, even if we had the hardware to 
read it.

Cheers,
/Frew

On 2024-06-11 10:42, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> Doug McIlroy kindly sent me contact information for John Chambers,
> co-author of the cited book about the S system.  I have just heard
> back from John, who offered a link to his summary paper from the
> 2020 HOPL conference proceedings
>
> 	S, R, and data science
> 	https://doi.org/10.1145/3386334
>
> and reported that S was licensed to AT&T Unix customers only in binary
> form, and that the original source code may no longer exist.
>
> That is a definitive answer, even if not the one that I was hoping to
> find.