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  1. …historical hardware the emulator supports yet, but he's probably worked on some of that too. ;) ) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/620 Thanks to Lars, here are two revisions of an AI Lab memo about LLOGO:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2026-09-12 · in Logo Programming
  2. …a much less extensive set of foul words and doesn't get insulted like his ANIMAL game does: Doctor: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/doc.102 Guess the Animal: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/animal.1..…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2026-08-25 · in Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
  3. By the way, I also coded a QR symbol generator in PDP-10 assembly language. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/lars/qrcode.8
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2026-05-05 · in Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)
  4. …preserved, and I converted its typewriter font to Hershey font format. Scroll Saver disassembly: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/f6408e16cb1aaf7f2583c02cd... My kludge to parse it into Hershey JHF format:…
    comment by kragen · 2025-12-02 · in A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
  5. …from the ITS file "AI:HUMOR;AI KOANS". Here's another Moon story from the humor directory: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/humor/moon's.g... Moon's I.T.S. CRASH PROCEDURE document from his home directory, which goes into much…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2025-11-20 · in The lost cause of the Lisp machines
  6. …is 'culture' from the MIT frozen in time, from TECO Emacs to Dungeon/Zork and early networking. https://github.com/PDP-10/its On Basic, there's the games example -Basic Computer Games- made into a repo at GitHub, and some people are…
    comment by anthk · 2025-11-09 · in 52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history
  7. …passwords. However, Stallman insisted that everyone use the same one, you can still boot it: https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by BSDobelix · 2025-10-27 · in Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins
  8. I built an implementation in PDP-10 assembly language a while back: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/lars/qrcode.8
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2024-11-18 · in Creating a QR Code step by step
  9. …and hooking, a Maclisp close to the future GNU Emacs' Elisp, proto-internet, AI, video terminals... https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/README.md http://www.hakmem.org/ These have been built collaboratively, for sure. GNU and Emacs…
    comment by anthk · 2024-09-28 · in Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?
  10. …https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723853 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780515 [5] https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/sysnet/supdup....
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-07-24 · in The Origin of Emacs in 1976
  11. …from user to user to share like a joint, by detatching and reattaching them to different TTYs! https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/_info_/its.pri... >VIII.B. CRTSTY >For display terminals which are not handled directly by the…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-07-24 · in The Origin of Emacs in 1976
  12. Compile ITS and just run :macsyma at the DDT prompt (shell/debugger) from ITS: https://github.com/pdp-10/its The syntax it's the same, I even made a plot and 'printed' into the host from an ARDS output from the plot command, by converting…
    comment by anthk · 2024-04-15 · in Integral Calculator
  13. >MIT AI... Not all, ITS and PDP10 can be emulated under Simh classic. Or you clone their github repo https://github.com/PDP-10/its and run make download EMULATOR=pdp10-ka Macsyma, Lisp, Emacs, Adventure... are still alive. And maybe tons…
    comment by anthk · 2024-04-05 · in Escaping the Digital Dark Age
  14. …for DOCTOR from ITS -- it has a much less extensive set of foul words and doesn't get insulted: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/doc.102 I wrote this recently about Kent Pitman's work on Lisp, the MIT-AI Lab's ITS…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-02-17 · in Kent Pitman's Lisp Eliza from MIT-AI's ITS History Project
  15. Kent Pitman also wrote the ANIMAL guessing game in spring of 1978: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/animal.1... https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/animal.r... It would guess your animal by asking you yes…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-02-17 · in Kent Pitman's Lisp Eliza from MIT-AI's ITS History Project
  16. …in MACLISP, which was of course inspired by ELIZA. (Joseph Weizenbaum taught Kent Pitman LISP!) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/doc.102 And here's what happened with he (manually by typing) hooked it up with Kenneth…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-01-07 · in AI or Ain't: Eliza
  17. …with Interlan Ethernet board, and the ROM would download the remaining OS code over network. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/mits_s
    comment by p_l · 2023-12-26 · in War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
  18. An older chess TUI: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1024#issuecomment-40025...
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2023-12-06 · in A chess TUI implementation
  19. …in MACLISP, which was of course inspired by ELIZA. (Joseph Weizenbaum taught Kent Pitman LISP!) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/doc.102 And here's what happened with he (manually by typing) hooked it up with Kenneth…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-11-24 · in The Revival of Medley/Interlisp
  20. …it depended on its users at MIT and elsewhere, and its specific time and place in history. [1] https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by musicale · 2023-11-10 · in Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal
  21. …to program in MACLISP. (That's "Man And Computer Lisp" from "Project MAC", not "Macintosh Lisp".) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/teach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-10-29 · in (learn 'scheme)
  22. …and of course there's PDP-10 org and its gather docs on github: https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by p_l · 2023-10-29 · in Research Unix Sixth Edition (WASM)
  23. …https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723853 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780515 [5] https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/sysnet/supdup.... subttl LSRCHK and LSRWRN -- see if user is loser ;;; This checks to see if…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-10-22 · in "<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs
  24. …and forced to use a shitty VT52). http://junk.nocrew.org/pipermail/its/1988-September/002005.h... https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/sysdoc/itstty.... >This file describes just about all there is to know about using and…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-10-22 · in "<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs
  25. …wholeheartedly, based on both practical projects and the retrocomputing world. For example: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/ This is a repo for the Incompatible Timesharing System operating system, ITS to its friends. ITS ran on 36-bit…
    comment by msla · 2023-10-10 · in Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
  26. …that ChatGPT probably read: LIST OF TECO COMMANDS, TECO VERSION 1132. Last updated 5 August 1981: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/_teco_/tecord.... TECO PRIMER: AN ANNOTATED OUTLINE OF TECO COMMANDS:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-07-30 · in The Hacker's Dictionary
  27. …the original jargon file from AI:HUMOR; free of ESR's pollution: AI:HUMOR;MITSAI JARGON (25.3 KB): https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/humor/mitsai.j... AI:HUMOR;JARGON > (85.3 KB): https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/hu…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-07-29 · in The Hacker's Dictionary
  28. …historical hardware the emulator supports yet, but he's probably worked on some of that too. ;) ) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/620 Thanks to Lars, here are two revisions of an AI Lab memo about LLOGO:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-07-17 · in LOGO Manual (1974) [pdf]
  29. …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...
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2023-07-10 · in PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator
  30. …recording of it [2], and it's quite impressive too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU [2] https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/147
    comment by gattilorenz · 2023-07-10 · in PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator
  31. …more powerful and elegant, unleashing the full undiluted power of the PDP-10 at your fingertips. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/_info_/ddtord.... You could also write DDT commands in text files like your login file, i.e.…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-05-18 · in The Case for Bash (2021)
  32. This has very strong vibes of the PDP-10's Magic Switch https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232
    comment by ciroduran · 2023-04-28 · in Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
  33. Oops, URL should be https://github.com/PDP-10/its/pull/2150
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2023-02-23 · in Original PDP-10 Zork now rebuilt with MDL compiler
  34. …environments. ITS EMACS had some kind of hsplit support early on, possibly as early as April 1978 ( https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/eak/emacs.lore ), and later some limited terminal-dependent vsplit support was developed for…
    comment by PAPPPmAc · 2022-11-27 · in What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
  35. IDK on the PDP-8, but PDP-10 had ITS. https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by anthk · 2022-11-21 · in Ask HN: What story from the PDP-8 era would make a good script?
  36. …Incompatible Timesharing System (github.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514918 https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by DonHopkins · 2022-06-20 · in Orkut
  37. Some (relatively successful) attempts were made to run it in an emulated PDP: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/147
    comment by gattilorenz · 2022-06-19 · in SHRDLU
  38. > ITS is also available as open source ( https://github.com/PDP-10/its ) Sometimes I wonder, if you wanted to create an operating system like ITS for more modern platforms, what it would look like? ITS is written in PDP-10 assembly, what…
    comment by skissane · 2022-05-18 · in The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]
  39. …many open-source Scheme and Common Lisp implementations, and ITS is also available as open source ( https://github.com/PDP-10/its ). Of course, modern Unix-like systems these days are large and complex, though Plan 9 and Inferno are quite…
    comment by linguae · 2022-05-18 · in The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]
  40. …historical hardware the emulator supports yet, but he's probably worked on some of that too. ;) ) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/620 Thanks to Lars, here are two revisions of an AI Lab memo about LLOGO:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2021-09-21 · in Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
  41. …The opposite to Multics the "Incompatible Timesharing System" gets some Maintenance-(love) too: https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by nix23 · 2021-07-30 · in Multics MR12.7 released
  42. …in MACLISP, which was of course inspired by ELIZA. (Joseph Weizenbaum taught Kent Pitman LISP!) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/doc.102 And here's what happened with he (manually by typing) hooked it up with Kenneth…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2021-05-30 · in Joseph Weizenbaum’s Original ELIZA
  43. …have more cool stuff. [1] https://multicians.org/site-timeline.html Btw, great fan of your work at https://github.com/PDP-10/its . Keep up the good work in keeping computer history alive!
    comment by bilegeek · 2021-05-12 · in Multics Public Access
  44. In that case you should probably try ITS. http://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2021-04-20 · in PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
  45. …- BBN's PDP-10 Logo - CLOGO - PDP-11 Logo - Lisp Logo - Apple II Logo (cross assembled on ITS) http://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2021-04-15 · in History of Logo (2020) [pdf]
  46. How to learn Lisp, ‘82 edition: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/teach/lesson.i... The good times when programming was few orders of magnitudes simpler with less abstraction layers.
    comment by miohtama · 2021-01-24 · in Incompatible Timesharing System
  47. …device which would let you dissociate any file on the system by using the "DP:" device name prefix: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/4e2ea8e4d851a0ea1f910c300...
    comment by DonHopkins · 2020-07-19 · in OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
  48. …GNU Emacs was created, even though the facility was renamed “RMail”. Lovely TECO RMAIL source code: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/4e2ea8e4d851a0ea1f910c300... Oops, silly GitHub thinks TECO source code looks like a binary file! What…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2020-06-05 · in Emacs as Email Client
  49. …Incompatible Timesharing System (github.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514918 https://github.com/PDP-10/its
    comment by DonHopkins · 2020-05-08 · in Zork source code, 1977
  50. The Muddle interpreter and runtime is alive and well: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/mudsys
    comment by larsbrinkhoff · 2020-05-08 · in Zork source code, 1977