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Question is, how do we get there today? And XDE? I haven't heard of that one. Could you give me some pointers, please?
by Grumbledour 7y ago
Question is, how do we get there today?
And XDE? I haven't heard of that one. Could you give me some pointers, please?
- pjmlp 7y agoWe get there by not placing UNIX in a pedestal, being open minded and appreciate the dedication of several people that keep doing the thankless work to digitize the history of computing. XDE was the developer environment for the Mesa programming language on Xerox Alto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language) https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxxdeXDDEConceptsandPrinciplesSep85_6240532/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxxdeXDDEConceptsan... When Mesa evolved into Mesa/Cedar, it got further improved. https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcteCedarProgrammingEnvironmentAMidtermRepo_13518000/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcteCedarProgra...
- Grumbledour 7y agoThanks, that looks really interesting! It seems, the Alto just keeps on giving and giving. Though if you don't know what you are looking for, that stuff can be really hard to find.
- pjmlp 7y agoIndeed, we were very lucky at my university, the CS library was full of gems like these.