P-System (was Re: PDP 11/73 on the Internet)

[Sridhar Ayengar]

James Wilson wrote:
> Tony Duell wrote:
>>> It would be nice to see just about any OS that wasn't basically 
>>> POSIX, or
>>> DOS/Windows running native on a PC.
>>>     
>>
>> ROM BASIC? (Technically, it performs some of the functions of an OS)
>> Standalone Forth? (there must be at least one..)
>> UCSD P-system?
>> CP/M-86?
>>
>> -tony
>>   
> 
> UCSD P-system?
> 
> Now theres a name I haven't seen in a while.... 10 or so years ago I 
> worked for a company in Bristol (UK) who supposedly had the rights to 
> the P-System. Went by the name of Cabot Software, formerly Pecan Systems 
> IIRC. Great system but didn't keep up with the times. We had the 
> interpreter running on a selection of digital TV STBs with C as the 
> preferred source language (no, not a logical choice for the P-System!). 
> That led to them getting into the MHEG-5 market and eventually swallowed 
> up by a TV manufacturer. Anyway, the story goes that the P-System was 
> considered by IBM along with CP/M for the PC. Don't know how much thuth 
> there was to that but even in my time we had several customers still 
> running P-System natively on a variety of hardware - AppleII, a 
> contemporary mini (can't remember which) at Norwich Union and some 68K 
> based (Stride?) systems.

I know for a fact that IBM offered p-System for the PC, because I have a 
copy of *IBM's* p-System and all its manuals (binder-in-box) for the PC. 
  The binders are blue.  The PC-DOS ones are beige/tan, if my memory 
serves me.

Peace...  Sridhar