6 Jun
2023
6 Jun
'23
9:34 a.m.
I will have to take a look around my offline archives and CDs. I had the
complete source of KSOS as it existed ca 1988 after certain changes were
made at Logicon.
I haven't looked at that data in years - it is possible that it may even
have the original Ford KDNs (Kernel Design Notes). I'm *pretty* sure I
know where it is.
If there's any interest I can look for it later this week.
Before and during early covid I was using SIMH to build a PWB system to
serve as the dev platform for KSOS. I think I had everything EXCEPT the
Modula compiler. For the life of me I can't remember which compiler it
was. It was GFE as part of the project; it would have been the same
compiler used at Ford.
--tep
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 8:16 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
As promised in the other email, I had one other tidbit
worth sharing some
detail on but that is very different from WECo promo and informational
material. What I've got here are two documents pertaining to the
"Department of Defence Kernelized Secure Operating System" project as
undertaken by Ford's Western Development Laboratories Division.
The documents in question are https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA111577.pdf
and https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA111566.pdf and represent the User's
Manuals and Final Report respectively on this KSOS system. These appear to
be from the same microfiche as the documents linked based on splotches on
the last page's date frame, although the copies I have here have the full
frame, the PDFs linked seem to have the last panel cropped to a small
square in the middle. Not super significant, but sometimes it's the little
details.
Anywho, unfortunately I don't have much to report, I got a bit excited
while looking for these at first because I was having a hard time turning
up PDFs, thought I had stumbled upon something unseen for some time, but in
the gulf between last email and this I found them. Silver lining is one
less set of documents to scan, but nothing to really expose that isn't
already a click away.
- Matt G.