> > 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
