Comment Re:Pr1mos not on the list :-( (Score 1) 147
Hi!
How refreshing to read all this!
I used to work for PR1ME from 1977-88 as a sw-engineer in germany. we had lots of contacts to the primers in boston, of course, and DID we had fun among us and with the machines (most of the time)!!
all that you remember, from como to phantoms and epf, are features i miss most of the time now. when i started, it was with rev5, on a p300, with 64K words memory (supporting 2 editors and 1 fortran compile). oh yeah. well, it wasn't all honey, we often (?) asked for sw which "them in Boston" didn't provide us. but we got a lot, from codasyl DB to cobol/forms, even Modula, common lisp and prolog. but the prizes and costs didn't come out good in the end, as our special OS (remember hardware for context switching support with lots of 32bit registersets?) needed special hw. this was what all was about: software first!
How refreshing to read all this!
I used to work for PR1ME from 1977-88 as a sw-engineer in germany. we had lots of contacts to the primers in boston, of course, and DID we had fun among us and with the machines (most of the time)!!
all that you remember, from como to phantoms and epf, are features i miss most of the time now. when i started, it was with rev5, on a p300, with 64K words memory (supporting 2 editors and 1 fortran compile). oh yeah. well, it wasn't all honey, we often (?) asked for sw which "them in Boston" didn't provide us. but we got a lot, from codasyl DB to cobol/forms, even Modula, common lisp and prolog. but the prizes and costs didn't come out good in the end, as our special OS (remember hardware for context switching support with lots of 32bit registersets?) needed special hw. this was what all was about: software first!
