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Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10

From Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
Newsgroups alt.sys.pdp10
Subject Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10
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Date 2026-01-23 14:31 +0000
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David Todd wrote:
> Yes, I think the version that Jayjwa pointed to in the first note
> about this is actually Crowther's original version.  One long source
> file, adv.f4, and a smaller file, iofil.for.  I think adv.f4 is
> Crowther's original code, which ran on a KA-10 DEC-10

The files were on the [1,DON] (Woods) directory on the SAIL KL10 and
were originally named ADVENT.F4 and ADVENT.DAT, created March 1977.

> I think the Crowther code is historically significant and worth
> preserving somewhere.

Absolutely, and it is preserved in the "Saildart" archive of backups
from the SAIL PDP-10.  Other copies are out there.

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Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-06 13:17 -0500
  Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-01-07 18:36 -0500
    Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-08 11:59 -0500
      Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-08 13:00 -0500
  Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-20 17:39 -0500
    Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-21 12:28 -0500
    Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-01-21 15:43 -0500
      Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-21 18:04 -0500
        Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-01-22 17:38 +0000
          Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-23 08:22 -0500
            Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10 Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-01-23 14:31 +0000

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