16 Jul
2023
16 Jul
'23
8:35 a.m.
On July 11th, Warren wrote:
All, way back when, Dennis sent me some DECtape images
to look after. I've
put some of them in the Unix Archive (the s1 and s2 tapes) as they contained
Unix source code or binaries. The others I kept aside as they didn't contain
Unix code, or they were potentially sensitive.
.... I've decided to put
all the tapes that Dennis gave me here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/
In https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/README
Are notes (apparently written by DMR):
dmr
Random stuff from my directory. Most probable dates: 1972.
....
pig.b is an interesting artifact: it is a B program
that echoes what you type in Pig latin. (Incidentally,
there is a translation of this program into C, dated 1978,
in a subdirectory that still spins on a disk attached to
the Unix machine where I get my mail.)
This jiggled a nerve in my brain, that FINALLY connected.
The TMG manual in the Multics System-Programmer's Manual by Robert
R. Fenichel and M. D. Mcilroy, pub. April 17, 1967 has a sample TMG
program to translate english to Pig Latin.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/Multics-Documents/MSPM/bn-4-02…
It appears (in translation) as a test to a port of PDP-11 TMG:
https://github.com/amakukha/tmg/blob/master/test/086_pig_latin/pig_latin.t
I haven't yet compared pig.b to the program in the TMG manual.