Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!dts From: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: prime help Message-ID: <1259@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 21:48:39 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1259 Posted: Tue Jan 14 21:48:39 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 01:12:56 EST References: <1352@brl-tgr.ARPA> <643@rclex.UUCP> Reply-To: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia Lines: 45 In article <643@rclex.UUCP> walt@rclex.UUCP (Walter L. Weber) writes: >> I am looking for information on a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system to run >> on a PRIME 2550 at Sharon High School. Does anyone know of such a system. If >> so please let me know how I can get a copy. I have tried PRIME's "PRIMIX" >> and found it wanting: too slow, too new, too buggy > >An earlier, limited attempt at an emulation was the "Software Tools >Subsystem" done at Georgia Institue of Technology. The document I have >on this is from the School of Information and Computer Science, is dated >April 1982, and carries the number "GIT-ICS-82/05" on the title page. It >is approx. 100 single-sided pages long. > >Good luck - PRIMOS is their chosen route. Good old Software Tools. Tech isn't supporting it anymore, something to do with our primes getting too expensive too maintain, I believe. It's a shame, too, because I quite liked it. It was a shock to have to move to unix, and I didn't move willingly. There was enough overlap between swt and unix that I wasn't totally lost and could make intelligent guesses about how to do things. But unix is a pain in the ass to try to learn on your own, even if you're already familiar with a derivative system, whereas I learned swt almost exclusively from the on-line documentation. By the way, swt was slow, too, in large part because it ran on top of primos. Its pipes weren't real pipes, either; they were just hidden temporary files. But the written documentation was infinitely better (more accurate and less hostile towards the beginning user) and the user interface a bit more consist- ent. It didn't have all the bells and whistles unix has, but then there were also a few functional enhancements here and there. Forgive me. Just reminiscing. -Danny -- -- CAUTION: WET FLOOR <== Is this a warning or a command? -- Danny Sharpe School of ICS Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!dts