retro-software.B5500-software

R/C (Remote/Card) Interactive Source Editor for Burroughs B5500

R/C was written in the late 1960s by Ron Brody at Burroughs Defense,
Space, and Special Systems Group in Paoli, Pennsylvania, US. It some of
the functionality of a timesharing system, but was not one. Unlike
CANDE, R/C was designed to run under the B5500 Data Communications MCP
(DCMCP) operating system, rather than the Timesharing MPC (TSMCP). The
remote access facilities of DCMCP were oriented towards on-line
transaction processing (OLTP) rather than multi-user timesharing.

R/C provided for the remote preparation and maintenance of card-image
files, submission of card image files as batch jobs to the B5500 host,
and some remote control of those jobs. In that sense, it was more like a
Remote Job Entry (RJE) system, but one in which the card decks were
maintained on the central host rather than at the remote site. Output
from programs was generally printed or punched at the host, although
printer and punch files could be file-equated to disk and listed by R/C
from disk to the remote terminal.

The source files for R/C were transcribed from portions of
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/B5000_5500_5700/listing/
B5700_Text_Editors_Sep76.pdf by Rich Cornwell of Durham, North Carolina,
US. Proofing and correction of the source was done by Paul Kimpel.

RC.alg_m is the R/C program, written in Burroughs Extended Algol.

RC-Compile.card is a card deck that can be used to compile the R/C
source.

RC-Manual.txt_m is the raw text of the R/C Reference Manual. This is in
the markup notation used by the XREF/JONES utility, available on the
Mark XIII SYSTEM tape.