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One of the researchers involved (I think) also maintains a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems Museum": https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/IC
by contextfree 2y ago
One of the researchers involved (I think) also maintains a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems Museum": https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/HomePage.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/...
As the OP article mentions much (most? all?) of the software developed in the project was freely released (under an MIT-like license? https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/using-IFS-E.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... ) and it seems to be available for download (in source form) from here: https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/Museum/IFS/HomePage-E.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/...
most of it would only run on the prototype computer they wrote, but some of it was ported to Unix.
- mindcrime 2y agoWow. This is amazing. I can't say how happy I am that you posted this. I've never seen this site before... and I explicitly went looking for something like this a while back, and somehow did not find this. I've been fascinated by the FGCS stuff for a long time, and had always thought there must be an archive of that body of knowledge somewhere, but other than a few books on Concurrent Prolog I had not managed to scare up much of it. Now, I find that more or less all of it is online and available? All the Technical Reports, all the Technical Memoranda, and even the software? Amazing. Now if only I read Japanese...