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Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code

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In article <r7ntdj$v93$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
Forrest Aldrich  <forrie@forrie.com> wrote:
>Some time ago, and I'm talking many years, there was discussion and 
>debate about obtaining the full source code of the AT&T 3B1.   I believe 
>at the time, there were far too many restriction and, AFAIK, the topic 
>was dropped.
>
>I wonder if since then there has been any progress on this.

I doubt it. I've also not seen anything about it on TUHS. It'd be
worth asking there, though.  It's a good question as to if Convergent
even exists these days, who owns that source, and if it even exists
anywhere in machine readable form, from whence it might be recovered.

>I'm not entirely sure what we could actually "do" with it these days, to 
>be honest.  There is a 3B1 emulator project that is slowly coming along, 
>but short of porting it over to another architecture (nobody is going to 
>do that), it may be useless.

Yeah, only for the emulator.

>I personally miss the simple MGR windowing system, I thought it was 
>pretty neat for what it was.

It ran also on Sun hardware.  You might could find the source and
get it to run on PC hardware, but I doubt it'd be worth it.

HTH,

Arnold
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com

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  Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-04-21 18:46 -0600
  Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2020-04-22 17:26 +0000
  Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code J Booth <166sunny@gmail.com> - 2020-10-30 12:08 -0700
    Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code Convergent MightyFrame <mightyframect@gmail.com> - 2020-12-14 21:22 -0800
      Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2020-12-15 16:42 +0000
        Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> - 2021-02-26 10:47 -0500
          Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> - 2021-02-26 10:57 -0500
          Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-02-26 09:04 -0700
            Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code J Booth <166sunny@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 09:11 -0800
              Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> - 2021-02-26 14:02 -0500
                Re: AT&T 3B1 Source Code "dbr...@gmail.com" <dbrower@gmail.com> - 2022-08-18 20:39 -0700

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