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Article #623417Re: Any implementations of JOSS?
From: zync...
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 00:41
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 00:41
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On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 3:40:55 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote: > While tidying up my bookshelf I found an old copy of > "Time-Shared Computer Languages" which discussed a bunch > of languages available on-line in 1973. > > One of them was JOSS, first implemented on the vacuum tube Johnniac, > then reimplemented on the PDP-6, and available on the PDP-10 where DEC > called it AID. A cut down version was available on the PDP-8 as > FOCAL. I think it had a lot of influence on Basic, both in that > program lines were numbered and statements started with keywords like > Let. The numerically inclined admired its correctly rounded ten digit > decimal arithmetic, so sqrt(3)*sqrt(3) was 3, not 2.9999999999996. > > Are there any versions of JOSS still around? I suppose I could fire > up a PDP-10 simulator and look for a copy of AID but I was hoping for > something less retro. > Anon for this ... The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) at http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/ has a lot of detailed information on JOSS. For example ... JOSS: ASSEMBLY LISTING OF THE SUPERVISOR http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0660836 I would not be surprised if JOSS could be resurrected in an emulator, if somebody felt so inclined (and I do not).
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