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Time Reshared. Exploring time-sharing operating systems.
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WAITS: Programming in SAIL
Today we'll look at SAIL, which was derived from Algol 60 and was developed and used on WAITS for both system programs and research projects. There was a compiler named SAIL, Assembled and coded in FAIL. Its authors, they say (one glorious day) Were run o
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WAITS: Programming
As an operating system for a research lab, WAITS was used extensively to write programs. In this post we'll look at which languages were used, the software development environment - and investigate an early implementation of Donald Knuth's MIX system. img
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WAITS: Arthur Samuel's Checkers
Although chess was a popular target, one of the earliest examples of using classical pre-LLM artificial intelligence to play games was checkers/draughts. Arthur Samuel wrote one of the first such programs in the early 1950s, ported this to the PDP-10 when
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WAITS: Getting data in and out
If you were working at SAIL in the 1970s and wanted to get data into or out of the system there were several options. Print outs could be made to the line printer or the new XGP laser printer. Data could be exchanged with other sites and computers via mag
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WAITS: Editors
Today we'll look at the text editors available on WAITS . There are two classes of editor: traditional teletype editors like SOS or TECO, and display editors like TV or E. Although the latter class is not fully working on emulation yet, it's interesting t
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