PDP-10
MUDMAN
From the book "The MDL Programming Environment":
Most of the documentation subsumsed in this manual is from published and unpublished memos of the Programming Technology Division of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science. As a general rule, updates and revisions to this and other PTD documents concerning MDL are available online in the directory "
MUDMAN" at MIT-DMS.
XX:<MDL.DOCUMENTATION> had these files:
chaos.doc.1
fing.mud.2
mat.txt.1
medit.doc.5
mend.doc.4
muddle.ordeix.1
muddle.order.1
mud.mid.2
newstruc.txt.2
The only traces from DM: MUDMAN; are:
MUDDLE RECENT
ABSTR RECENT
AUTREP RECENT
MNEME RECENT
MNEME is something from the Muddle standard library.
File names from tape database may have clues what to look for:
MUDMAN ABSTR INFO
MUDMAN ARC MANUAL
MUDMAN ASSEM DOC
MUDMAN ASSEM INFO
MUDMAN ASSEM JCR012
MUDMAN CASE INFO
MUDMAN COMBAT INFO
MUDMAN COMFIL INFO
MUDMAN COMPOS DOC
MUDMAN CRITIC INFO
MUDMAN DEBUGR INFO
MUDMAN DECL MEMO
MUDMAN DESGRP JEB003
MUDMAN DFL INFO
MUDMAN EDIT XNDR01
MUDMAN FSCAN INFO
MUDMAN GCINFO JBTB02
MUDMAN GLUE INFO
MUDMAN INKING INFO
MUDMAN IRS (MEMO)
MUDMAN ITIME DOC
MUDMAN L-M INFO
MUDMAN MAPS INFO
MUDMAN MARIAN XSG002
MUDMAN MCDOC (MEMO)
MUDMAN MEND INFO
MUDMAN MICROM INFO
MUDMAN MOLECU MEMO
MUDMAN MONITR INFO
MUDMAN MUDCAL DOC
MUDMAN MUDCOM INFO
MUDMAN MUDDLE ORDER
MUDMAN MUDLIB (MEMO)
MUDMAN MUDMAN INFO
MUDMAN MUDTAB INFO
MUDMAN NCOMBA INFO
MUDMAN PICTUR INFO
MUDMAN PURE INFO
MUDMAN RSUBR INFO
MUDMAN SKIP ORDER
MUDMAN SSVMUD INFO
MUDMAN STACK OVRFLW
MUDMAN SUBRFY DOC
MUDMAN TMPUSE JBTB05
MUDMAN TRACE ORDER
MUDMAN TYPES 1
MUDMAN UGRF RECENT
MUDMAN UNDO INFO
MUDMAN XABSTR DOC
MUDMAN XABSTR INFO
Progress ist made: https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1294641786728529921?s=20
Thanks for the reminder. Yes, I found an ARC (ITS archive) file on a PDP-10 backup tape. It seems to have the full Muddle manual. I have contacted Greg Pfister, and he agreed to request a copy of the file from MIT. I also found the SYS.11.01 memo, which I believe is the Muddle Primer. With some luck, we may be able to see the contents later this year.
Some time ago I have produced a new PDF version of the Muddle documentation. I have put it on github now: https://github.com/ZoBoRf/mdl-docs). The PDF file is here: https://github.com/ZoBoRf/mdl-docs/blob/master/tex/mdl.pdf
@eswenson1, did you get ToTS files from the MUDMAN directory? E.g. MUDMAN; ARC MANUAL has a full manual, and there are files like MUDMAN; SUBRFY DOC that describe individual features.
I did. I have all that. I was going to commit the SUBRY doc. And whenI get ASYLUM and MADMAN working, I’ll commit all that.
TRIVIA uses ASYLUM and MADMAN and I haven’t managed to get ASYLUM working yet. Because ASYLUM and MADMAN use direct page reads and writes and random seek file I/O, they can easily get MPV errors (which they are). It appears that the DATA-IPRINT functionality is working, but when an ASYLUM is opened and the files are found in the MFD (of the ASYLUM) during a read operation, incorrect offsets (disk or mem) are computed. The results vary. Sometimes you get MPV errors, other times you get back the wrong value (different from what you stored).
The logic in AREAD and APRINT is complicated and I haven’t been able to isolate what is going awry.
@eswenson1, did you get ToTS files from the MUDMAN directory? E.g. MUDMAN; ARC MANUAL has a full manual, and there are files like MUDMAN; SUBRFY DOC that describe individual features.
I'll commit MUDMAN;ARC MANUAL and MUDMAN;SUBRFY DOC soon. I them them staged in git with updated timestamps.txt, but I have other changes right now in that repo and don't (yet) want to unstage other commits.
Great! There's an issue for it already: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/844