On 1/12/2017 7:27 AM, Charles Anthony wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:24 PM, jim stephens <jwsm...@jwsss.com> wrote:
On 1/11/2017 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
What about software?
BCPL IBM mainframe portability package (original time frame). Common now,
not so common back in the day.
The kit was used with some efforts to port to minicomputers @ USL
Also got some Mathilda manuals from Aarhus
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/aarhusUnive
rsity/pb/PB-34_An_Overview_of_the_MATHILDA_System_Aug74.pdf
We were running the simulator which was in BCPL on a Multics system. The
visit by the Mathilda hardware was canceled a year after I was there.
Strictly speaking I don't own, but I have helped breathe life back into
some software; we have a working Multics BCPL compiler. You can run that
software....
-- Charles
the CHM took ownership of the USL archive which would have included any
BCPL remains. I have only the portability package tape and image,
which will get the BCPL compiler running on a 360 MVT or later (Also
made it go on an AT-370 VM system, as well as VM-SP5).
you can then re-target the code generation for portability on whatever
platform. That can of course be done better with the Multics BCPL.
The availability of Multics BCPL was one of the things that brought
Professor Konerup from Aarhus to USL, and they funded and spent a couple
of years studying in the US. Dr. Bruce Shriver spent a couple of years
in Aarhus on some sort of grant previously.
Professor Ted Lewis had SIGARCH for maybe 3 or 4 years as well as Dr.
Shriver, and we put on two SIGARCH conventions at USL. One had been
sponsored earlier, and while I was there in 1975 another one was put on
in New Orleans. A very interesting town to have a lot of such folks in
town for, and still get anything done.
Look up the Delta Towers, where the convention was held if you want to
see another fun challenge.
thanks
jim
