[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Rich Alderson]

"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:

> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:00:09 UTC, "Tom Linden" <tom at kednos.company> 
> wrote:

>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:51:40 -0700, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>  
>> wrote:

>>> Somebody tell me again what wonderful IT geniuses Gates and Allen were.

>> They had nothing to do with that, all they did was write a sort of basic
>> compiler.  Seattle Software did the other stuff.

> I think Allen just put in money.

You're wrong.  PGA wrote the main portion of the BASIC interpreter, to which
WHGjr contributed portions, and a third person was responsible for the math
functions.  It was tested using an 8080 simulator that PGA wrote for the PDP-10
under Tops-10.

I've seen the code.  Hell, I restored it from a DECtape image to a disk
directory on a running Tops-10 system in his collection a couple of years ago.

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