[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[David Froble]

Jonathan wrote:
> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 10:01:14 PM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
>> Jonathan wrote:
>>
>>>>> Who's doing the Basic Plus...
>>> We'll do it, we did the first one. :)
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> EGH
>> John, always good to hear you're still kicking ...
> 
> I think you mean John Santos, still here and kicking.  John wrote the RSTS emulator for VMS.

Yes, John Santos.  He gave me some help with a locking product many 
years ago.  ROSS/V was used in the early VMS days by many people.

>> :-)
>>
>> Is Dave (I think that is his name) Hart still there?  It would maybe be 
>> good to hear some stories from the old days, who did what, why, and how.
> 
> Tim Hart, who, sadly, passed on last year.  He was the primary author of the Basic-Plus interpreter (and the co-author of the first LISP compiler at MIT.)

And sad that I could not remember his name, until you corrected me.