Paul, (and anyone else that wants to take a look).
http://www.rsts.org/~bbump/unknown_author
It's not like it is that long, I will probably end up typing it in.
Brett
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Brett Bump <[email protected]> wrote:
This is mostly for Tim and Paul, but I figured to cross-post in case any
one might have seen this before (before I lob thy Holy Hand Grenade).
1. In cleaning up some of my old paperwork, I stumbled across a fanfold
. paper copy of "RSTS/E System Programmer's Notebook" page 3 (no 1-2)
. followed by Chapters 1-5 and Appendix A, B pages 1-5. The bottom of
. the Preface reads:
.
. "What follows is a sermon, it is not a Gospel."
.
. A section on the first page of Appendix A has a paragraph that says:
.
. CAUTION
. The PPEK sequences described in this (sic. I presume PEEK)
. document are not a part of the supported
. functionality of RSTS/E V6C as described
. in the RSTS/E Software Product Description.
.
Has anyone seen/read this before, know who wrote it, have a digital copy
that could be distributed out, or am I destined to type it back in so all
can read (it is good material on old yellowed crackly fanfold paper)???
That doesn't ring bells, and I don't seem to have that document in my files. I
was part of RSTS/E development at that time, so if it came from there I might
have seen it but let it slip my memory.
Could you scan a few pages, perhaps the first few and a couple of pages of that
appendix, so I can see more of the context? Just a simple photograph is
probably good enough if you don't have a scanner.
Typing it all in is hard work (I've done it for un-OCR-able listings, 300 pages). If the
listing is clean, a scan plus OCR will cut the effort very considerably. Or just a scan,
since scans are perfectly readable for humans. OCR is only necessary if it's code that
you want to be able to compile/assemble or other kinds of data that need to be processed
by some program. Not too long ago I sent an old listing of "BTSS" (RSTS v0) to
another person on this list, who scanned it very skillfully. In other words, those
capabilities are around.
2. I lost a very good friend (coworker) this week to MI (he was 66). ...
I'm sorry to hear that. I don't have answers on your other two questions.
paul
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