If you do find that information Tom, one thing I'd be curious about is if it contains
the seismic discrimination components:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA121241.pdf
This same cache of documents contained two sets of the manual pages for what I presume are
the components being discussed in that paper. The libraries are listed as
"seismic", "datacopy", "sdp", "graphics", and
"mod1". That said, I can't authoritatively tie them together but I think
that's all talking about the same thing. Unfortunately none of this stuff was in
close proximity in the binders and stacks of paper, so I can't say whether
they're actually related or not, but between this all being together and both KSOS
and the seismic package info being there in the same .mil repository, there's a
chance.
No rush though, just something to keep in mind if you happen upon that info.
- Matt G.
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On Monday, June 5th, 2023 at 8:34 PM, Tom Perrine <tom.perrine+tuhs(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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.