[ih] Run TENEX in emulation?

[Vint Cerf]

CompuServe had a sargasso sea of pdp 10s and 20s and Foonlys
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 17:24 David Walden <dave.walden.family at gmail.com wrote:

> Does Dan Murphy's TENEX website have anything useful?
> http://tenex.opost.com/
>
> On February 6, 2019, at 4:15 PM, Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org> wrote:
>
> This message is addressed primarily to the BBN alumni out there.
>
> The simh platform supports various PDP10 emulations (ITS, TOPS-10,
> TOPS-20), but from what I have been able to determine so far, there is
> no TENEX emuation.  I was told that an emulation of the TENEX pager
> hardware was implemented but not much tested at this point.
>
> Do any of you know whether an archive of TENEX software has been
> saved?  If so, do you know whether it could be made available to
> experimenters (considering any licensing restrictions that might still
> be in force, etc.)?
>
> My motivation for this is one step removed.  I've been working on
> using the simh emulation of the PDP11 to run the EPOS operating system
> for the PDP11 that we developed at ISI to support the ARPANET packet
> speech work.  The EPOS system and application software was developed
> on the TENEX systems at ISI.
>
> Going a step further in the search, if there is an archive of software
> from the BBN systems, I wonder whether that archive might include the
> MACN11 and LINK11 programs that we used for the EPOS development.  I
> know those programs were used at BBN because I worked with Ray
> Tomlinson on extending the functionality of LINK11, which was written
> in SAIL.
>
> I have one binary build of EPOS that I have succeeded in running, and
> I do have sources for EPOS, but no build tools.  Sadly, when I left
> ISI I did not personally save as many files as I now wish I would
> have, and ISI has not kept this history, either.
>
>                                                         -- Steve
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