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  • Any chance of getting any Primos source for rev21 or beyond?

    From Andrew Marlow@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 24 05:02:13 2021
    Hello fellow Primates,

    AFAICS, Parametric, former owner of Prime Computer source code, are defunct. The ptc website exists but there is no mention of Prime or Primos. So I was wondering, does anyone know where one might obtain source code? The only source code I have seen,
    other than small utilities such as the Sheffield editor, is for rev19. I very want to get rev21, particularly the SPL code for the SIM commands. Any ideas?

    -Andrew M.

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  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 24 12:25:33 2021
    The only source code I have seen, other than small utilities such as the Sheffield editor, is for rev19. I very want to get rev21, particularly
    the SPL code for the SIM commands.

    Source code for layered products was not always available, and
    definitely not included with the V tape stuff that quite a few sites
    seem to have had. In this regard, I'm pretty sure DSM was treated like
    a layered product. Layered product source was on the D tape.

    I continue to hope that we can find some more tapes.

    De

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  • From Daiyu Hurst@21:1/5 to Dennis Boone on Fri May 13 21:44:53 2022
    On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 1:25:39 PM UTC-4, Dennis Boone wrote:
    The only source code I have seen, other than small utilities such as the Sheffield editor, is for rev19. I very want to get rev21, particularly
    the SPL code for the SIM commands.
    Source code for layered products was not always available, and
    definitely not included with the V tape stuff that quite a few sites
    seem to have had. In this regard, I'm pretty sure DSM was treated like
    a layered product. Layered product source was on the D tape.

    I continue to hope that we can find some more tapes.

    De

    There was a guy named Mike O'Rear who worked for Prime doing source maintenance, and he moved to Peritus
    when CVSI spun-off that activity. But the last time I contacted him, he said the tapes in his possession "fell apart".

    He lives in Tennessee, and he's on Facebook.

    -Dai

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to Daiyu Hurst on Thu May 19 08:48:19 2022
    On 5/14/22 00:44, Daiyu Hurst wrote:
    On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 1:25:39 PM UTC-4, Dennis Boone wrote:
    The only source code I have seen, other than small utilities such as the >>> Sheffield editor, is for rev19. I very want to get rev21, particularly
    the SPL code for the SIM commands.
    Source code for layered products was not always available, and
    definitely not included with the V tape stuff that quite a few sites
    seem to have had. In this regard, I'm pretty sure DSM was treated like
    a layered product. Layered product source was on the D tape.

    I continue to hope that we can find some more tapes.

    De

    There was a guy named Mike O'Rear who worked for Prime doing source maintenance, and he moved to Peritus
    when CVSI spun-off that activity. But the last time I contacted him, he said the tapes in his possession "fell apart".

    He lives in Tennessee, and he's on Facebook.

    -Dai


    I would be happy with some 19.X sources as that was the level I worked
    on sources for. Those were the days.

    bill

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  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 23 08:30:45 2022
    I would be happy with some 19.X sources as that was the level I worked
    on sources for. Those were the days.

    The captive 19.2 stuff is substantial.

    De

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  • From Daiyu Hurst@21:1/5 to Bill Gunshannon on Thu May 26 19:58:51 2022
    On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 8:48:22 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    I would be happy with some 19.X sources as that was the level I worked
    on sources for. Those were the days.

    Bill, here is a ZIP file on my Google Drive you can download. The binary files on it will be worthless, but anything
    that was in Prime-ASCII has been converted to standard ASCII and can be viewed with Notepad or almost any other
    PC-based program that can open text files (although they do not have .TXT extensions),

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Y766i3idaFD1ve535dVJ94tq0PIgyIf/view?usp=sharing

    Enjoy!
    -Dai

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