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R/C (Remote/Card) Interactive Source Editor for Burroughs B5500
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R/C was written in the late 1960s by Ron Brody at Burroughs Defense,
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Space, and Special Systems Group in Paoli, Pennsylvania, US. It had some
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of the functionality of a timesharing system, but was not one. Unlike
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CANDE, which had to run under the Timesharing MPC (TSMCP), R/C was
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designed to run under the B5500 Data Communications MCP (DCMCP)
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operating system. The datacom facilities of DCMCP were oriented towards
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on-line transaction processing (OLTP) rather than multi-user
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timesharing.
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R/C provided for the remote preparation and maintenance of card-image
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files, submission of card image files as batch jobs to the B5500 host,
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and some remote control of those jobs. In that sense, it was more like a
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Remote Job Entry (RJE) system, but one in which the card decks were
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maintained on the central host rather than at the remote site. Output
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from programs was generally printed or punched at the host, although
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printer and punch files could be file-equated to disk and listed by R/C
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from disk to the remote terminal.
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The source files for R/C were transcribed from portions of
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http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/B5000_5500_5700/listing/
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B5700_Text_Editors_Sep76.pdf
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by Rich Cornwell of Durham, North Carolina, US. Proofing and correction
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of the source was done by Paul Kimpel.
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RCSY94.RON.alg_m
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The R/C program, written in Burroughs Extended Algol.
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RC-Compile.card
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A card deck that can be used to compile the R/C source.
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TEACHER.0000094.txt_m
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The raw text of the R/C Reference Manual. This is coded in the
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markup notation used by the XREF/JONES utility, available on the
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Mark XIII SYSTEM tape. This file has not been transcribed from
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original markup -- Rich Cornwell reverse-engineered the markup for
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the first several sections from B5700_Text_Editors_Sep76.pdf; the
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reconstruction was completed by Paul Kimpel.
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