Clem,
I think the "Algol machine" you have in mind is the RC-2000 (not quite sure
of the designation--could look it up in the attic if it matters) designed by
Per Brinch Hansen for Regencentralen (again, the name may not be quite right).
The manual used Algol as a hardware description language. The instruction
set was not unusual. It has come up before in TUHS. I have the manual
if you need more info.
Doug
i have worked in tv, developing systems for archive restoration for many years.
if you have valuable sticky tapes i suggest you try and contact a lical video archivist, there are other tricks than just baking that can help - old tapes can present complex problems.
<story>
there was a sticky valuable rolling stones 24 track master tape i heard of. it was sent for analysis, and they discovered the stickiness was “vodka and coke” :-).
</story>
-Steve
Today's tape recovery gem. UBC's PDP-11 UNIX tools distribution ca. 1983 which includes UBC BASIC and their RT-11
emulation. It has a couple of bad blocks, but I couldn't find another copy of this anywhere.
http://bitsavers.org/bits/UBC/
If anyone has a complete copy, it would be good to replace it, but most is better than none of it.
All, I've locked the "Women in Computing" topic in the TUHS list
as it's not specifically Unix and liable to be contentious. Feel free
to continue it over on the COFF list.
E-mail me if you'd like to join the COFF list.
Cheers, Warren
> From: Deborah Scherrer
> In the early days of Usenix, I used to keep track of the women.
> Initially, about 30% of the organization was female. That dropped every
> year.
Interesting. Any ideas/thoughts on what was going on, what caused that?
Noel
Unless my leg is being pulled, I sent that for pure amusement.
Gcc has a very open mind on the subject, using both options
in the same sentence.
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> Doug wrote:
> > A diagnostic from gcc chimes in:
> > 'mktemp' is deprecated: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous; use `mkstemp'
...
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters
My impression was Doug was passing on a warning about the continued used
of mktemp(3) rather than the continued use of ASCII.
> From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
> Seeing as how this is diverging from TUHS, I'd encourage replies to
> the COFF copy that I'm CCing.
Can people _please_ pick either one list _or_ the other to reply to, so those
on both will stop getting two copies of every message? My mailbox is exploding!
Noel
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:16:24AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In many ways, it was a classic second system effect because they were
> trying to fix everything they thought was wrong with TCP/IP at the time
I'm not sure this part is accurate: the two efforts were contemporaneous; and
my impression was they were trying to design the next step in networking, based
on _their own_ analysis of what was needed.
> without really, truly knowing the differences between actual problems
> and mere annoyances and how to properly weight the severity of the issue
> in coming up with their solutions.
This is I think true, but then again, TCP/IP fell into some of those holes
too: fragmentation for one (although the issue there was unforseen problems in
doing it, not so much in it not being a real issue), all the 'unused' fields
in the IP and TCP headers for things that never got really got
used/implemented (Type of Service, Urgent, etc).
` Noel
