Re:PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator
by larsbrinkhoff on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:05AM
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I have tried several versions of SHRDLU, binary and source, but so far I haven't found one that works. Some people claim it never really worked well. Winograd himself seems to think it did, and there is what seems to be a working demo in a 1973 TV documentary. Others say it needed heavy manual patching to be somewhat usable, and those patches didn't make it to the source code files.
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Re:PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator
by gattilorenz on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:00AM
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Do you have a link/reference to the documentary?
Yes, I've seen the sources that say it never was stable, but I assume that at least what's in the recorded demo was at some point possible to run; of course it might be coming from a long-lost source/or binary.
Re:PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator
by larsbrinkhoff on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:46AM
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Terry and SHRDLU at 8:23 here: https://archive.org/details/what-about-tomorrow-on-the-side-...
See this for some more information: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/425#issuecomment-145588...