[Simh] RT-11 source

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-10-26 21:14, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> On Oct 23, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:07:33 -0400
>> Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>
>>> RT-11 is very clean.  I've worked with V2A (the FB version when
>>> possible, SJ when I didn't have enough memory).  They are very simple
>>> and compact; the UI is the old TOPS-10 style, not the newer bloated
>>> "DCL" interface.  So a V2 era edition would be a good way to go.
>>
>> Yes, it's very nice. Someone once gave me electronic copies of some
>> sources (circa 1975) and I read them with glee. Lovely comments, too:
>> the system call dispatcher had the comment "What's it going to be then,
>> eh?" from the Clockwork Orange. I think those comments were only in the
>> FB monitor.
>
> Yes.  They were the work of the FB designer, Anton Chernoff, later my mentor in college.  I lifted the idea later on; some of the DECnet/E source code has neat quotes in it.  Unfortunately, those aren't so visible because DECnet/E sources were never distributed... :-(

That practice were clearly also around in the software for the PDP-8. I 
remember quite some enjoyment reading about the financial state of the 
Pony Express in the mid 19th century in the FORTRAN-IV runtime system.

	Johnny

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