>
> While we're here, another note: on the SCAMP, they emulated the IBM 1130's
> version of APL (so I may have misspoken earlier - it wasn't an IBM S/3 they
> had trouble sourcing, but rather during the SCAMP dev it was an IBM 1130
> they had trouble finding to borrow/lease).   This SCAMP was the prototype
> leading to the IBM 5100 (where in the IBM 5100, they switched to using an
> S/360 based APL).
>
>
> On an off-chance of any IBMers out there, I'm still looking for Kitty Price
> or Patrick Smith (two known experts of the PALM processor, they wrote a
> paper referring to it in 1974).  In the appendix of that paper, they refer
> to a "1130 PALM Simulator" (i.e. before the PALM was available to them,
> someone had developed a simulator of it on the 1130).    Then in the next
> section, they refer to a "1130 Simulator which runs under VM/370".  Finding
> any of that software would be incredible.
>
> <SCAMP/IBM_SCAMP_1of3_May1974_AnArchitecturalAndDesignOverviewOfScamp_PatrickSmith_KittyPrice_Part1.pdf
> at main ยท voidstar78/SCAMP
> <
> https://github.com/voidstar78/SCAMP/blob/main/IBM_SCAMP_1of3_May1974_AnArchitecturalAndDesignOverviewOfScamp_PatrickSmith_KittyPrice_Part1.pdf
> >
> >
>
>
A whole other topic that gets little attention is the SC/MP processor, but
I digress.

Where would the SCAMP / PALM paper have been published?  I can check.

Bill

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