> I'm curious if the name "TPC" was an allusion to the apocryphal telephone
> company of the same name in the 1967 movie, "The President's Analyst"?
Good spotting. Ken T confirms it was from the flick.
doug
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
>
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
>
>> Pascal had P-code, and gave C a real run, especially as a teaching
>> language.
>
> Something I picked up at Uni was that Pascal was never designed for
> production use; instead; you debugged your algorithm in it, then ported it
> to your language of choice.
I was an active member of the UCSD Pascal project from 77 to 80, and then was with SofTech MicroSystems for a couple years after that.
An unwritten legacy of the Project was that, according to Professor Ken Bowles, IBM wanted to use UCSD Pascal as the OS for their new x86 based personal computer. The license was never worked out as the University of California got overly involved in it. As a result IBM went with their second choice, some small Redmond based company no one had ever heard of. So it was intended and, at least IBM thought, it was good enough for production use.
I also knew of UCSD Pascal programs written to do things such as dentist office billing and scheduling and other major ‘real world’ tasks. So it wasn’t just an academic project.
I still have UCSD Pascal capable of running in a simulator, though I’ve not run it in a while. And I have all the source for the OS and interpreter for the Version I.5 and II.0 systems. Being a code pig just means that I need a lot of disk space.
David
Hi.
Can anyone give a definitive date for when Bill Joy's csh first got out
of Berkeley? I suspect it's in the 1976 - 1977 time frame, but I don't
know for sure.
Thanks!
Arnold
The requested URL /pub/Wish/wish_internals.pdf was not found on this
server.
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> On Jun 26, 2016, at 5:59 PM, tuhs-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org wrote:
>
> I detested the CSH syntax. In order to beat back the CSH proponents at BRL, I added JOB control to the SV (and later SVR2) Bourne Shell. Then they beat on me for not having command like editing in (a la TCSH), so I added that. This shell went out as /bin/sh in the Doug Gwyn SV-on-BSD release so every once and a while over the years I trip across a “Ron shell” usually people who were running Mach-derived things that ran my shell as /bin/sh.
When porting BSD to new hardware at Celerity (later Floating Point, now part of Sun, oops Oracle) I got ahold of the code that Doug was working on and made the jsh (Job control sh) my shell of choice. Now that Bash does all of those things and almost everything emacs can do, Bash is my shell.
As far as customizing, I’ve got a .cshrc that does nothing more than redirect to a launch of bash if available and /bin/sh if nothing else. And my scripts for logging in are so long a convoluted due to many years of various hardware and software idiosyncratic changes (DG/UX anyone, anyone?) that I’m sure most of it is now useless. And I don’t change it for fear of breaking something.
David
