Modifying some of the sources has changed these from the values
previously in lisp.tcl and build.tcl; it now matches any string of
numbers on a line by itself (optionally with "." and spaces afterwards).
This is a change to the API, but existing users are already inconsistent
in how they handle 2-digit years -- some assume it's year % 100 (as the
documentation says), some assume it's year - 1900, and some
string-prepend "19" -- so most have Y2K problems that need fixing.
As it's now reading the date using two UUOs, it needs to be careful to
check that the year hasn't rolled over between the two, as LIBDOC; TIME
does for the day.
I've updated all four implementations of SDATE, but only tested the ITS
version.
Add HACK; to sources.tape, and add a missing \r to the build command.
I've also increased the timeout for MAKE WEBSER to be consistent with
what we've done for MUDDLE XFILE; since it's only a single MIDAS
invocation at the moment this shouldn't really be necessary.
Written by Paul Svensson, who gave permission in 2017 to include this
with DB ITS.
Source from SV: HACK; WEBSER 19, dated 2003-05-15. Build XFILE from SV:
HACK; MAKE WEBSER, dated 2011-07-09.
MONIT 114 expects this to exist so it can invoke DDT.
This follows the AI dump, where it's a link to SYS; ATSIGN DDT.
MAPS shows that on the pre-KS machines it was a link to SYS; ATSIGN
HACTRN, but that would presumably not work if you were using PWORD.
Jack Haverty wrote on its-hackers:
> On MIT-DM, the most commonly used top-level program was called
> "monit". It was used by most people instead of DDT because it required
> less memory, which was a very scarce and precious commodity in the
> early 70s before paging and swapping. In fact there was a lot of peer
> pressure to use monit unless you had a very good reason to use DDT.
This is a very old source file -- AI: SYSENG; MONIT 114 is listed in
MAPS in 1971-04. Development happened on DM; "Scenarios for Using
Arpanet at the International Conference on Computer Communication" has a
1972-09 transcript showing MONIT 192 on DM.
The binary SYS; TS MONIT is listed on AI, MC and ML from 1971 to 1983 in
MAPS, although it doesn't survive in the AI/MC KS10 dumps. A 1981
message to BUG-ITS from ED@MIT-ML suggests it was an old version:
> ML:SYS;TS MONIT [...] does not have symbols nor the correct start
> address (1300). It is pretty badly broken, but great fun to play with
> nevertheless.
where the default of > would be more appropriate. This fixes, in
particular the incorrect compilation of LIBDOC; TIME KMP8 instead of
LIBDOC; TIME KMP9. Resolves#1091.
The ITS pager parameters was based on the ML configuration, but the
emulator implements the AI pager. Thus one of the ML pager age bits
was treated as an address bit, which of course resulted in an NXM
error.
This is a standalone program using the PDP-6 Microtape device.
The source code has been fixed to assemble with the current version of
MIDAS. Double !s are needed to get the concatenation right. Also,
garbage at the end was removed.
to new DOTIMES and DOLIST macro definitions (in the case of FASLRO, update
to use DO rather than DOLIST since DOLIST no longer (as of latest UMLMAC)
binds a parameter to the loop count. Resolves#1054.
