Post #208185

@larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org - the short answer is curiosity. As far as I know there's very little preserved software and the format isn't used anywhere else, and it's actually trivial to extract the data without fully understanding the format, but there's a field I can't explain and would like to. It's also proving a nice way to get more familiar with the programming languages and the OS libraries, and it gives an insight into how the system evolved over its lifetime. If you do know of any CTSS or IBM 7094 software out there I'd be very interested. As well as Eliza and MUSIC-N I believe that regular expressions were also first implemented on the platform. It'd also be interesting to compare ARCHIV and other tools to their ITS (and Unix) equivalents - I'm sure there's some continuity.