Compare against PDP-10 backups

[larsbrinkhoff]

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Hello,

I have found a 1977 copy of "The MDL Programming Language - Primer and Manual" on the Dynamic Mocdling PDP-10 backup tapes. Here's a file listing:

  03  !FRONT MATTER 2 !8/11/77 11:53:32
  03  "CHAP  LIST   1 !8/11/77 11:53:38
  03  "SECT  LIST   3 !8/11/77 11:53:42
  03  CHAP01 BASIC  2 !8/11/77 11:53:57
  03  CHAP02 REP    4 !8/11/77 11:54:10
  03  CHAP03 SUBRS  2 !8/11/77 11:54:31
  03  CHAP04 VALUES 2 !8/11/77 11:54:38
  03  CHAP05 FUNCTS 3 !8/11/77 11:54:49
  03  CHAP06 TYPES  3 !8/11/77 11:55:09
  03  CHAP07 STRUCS 8 !8/11/77 11:55:35
  03  CHAP08 TRUTH  3 !8/11/77 11:56:02
  03  CHAP09 ARGLIS 6 !8/11/77 11:56:13
  03  CHAP10 LOOPS  5 !8/11/77 11:56:26
  03  CHAP11 I/O    9 !8/11/77 11:56:44
  03  CHAP12 LOCS   2 !8/11/77 11:57:15
  03  CHAP13 ASOCS  2 !8/11/77 11:57:21
  03  CHAP14 DECLS  6 !8/11/77 11:57:31
  03  CHAP15 OBLIST 4 !8/11/77 11:57:52
  03  CHAP16 FRAMES 3 !8/11/77 11:58:00
  03  CHAP17 MACROS 3 !8/11/77 11:58:12
  03  CHAP18 BITS   2 !8/11/77 11:58:31
  03  CHAP19 RSUBRS 3 !8/11/77 11:58:40
  03  CHAP20 PROCES 4 !8/11/77 11:58:58
  03  CHAP21 INTRPT 6 !8/11/77 11:59:18
  03  CHAP22 AGC    4 !8/11/77 11:59:29
  03  CHAP23 ITSJOB 2 !8/11/77 11:59:46
  03  CHAP24 TASTE  3 !8/11/77 11:59:50
  03  PENDX1 INSIDE 7 !8/11/77 11:59:56
  03  PENDX2 MICRO  7 !8/11/77 12:00:23
  03  PENDX3 TYPES  1 !8/11/77 12:00:53
  03  PENDX4 ERRORS 3 !8/11/77 12:00:58
  03  PENDX5 INIT   1 !8/11/77 12:01:12
  03  REFER  ENCES  1 !8/11/77 12:01:16
  03  \TOPIC INDEX  2 !8/11/77 12:01:21
  03  _TOKEN INDEX  6 !8/11/77 12:01:29

I have also found a 1979 copy of the memo SYS.11.01 "The MDL Programming Language".

Maybe these files can be used to compare against the transcripts to find typos etc. The files are not public yet, but I can get your files off GitHub and do a diff.

[larsbrinkhoff]

A quick check of chapter 24 reveals much of the wording is identical. The formatting and line breaks are different.

CC @ZoBoRf