Not related at all, to my knowledge. Sent from my iPad
> On Sep 27, 2015, at 01:00, Steve Algernon <salger...@me.com> wrote: > > Not sure if it's relevant: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordMARC > > My brother was one of the few engineers on this product, in Palo Alto. The > software ran on dozens of different machines and architectures, using the > most portable language of the day: Fortran 77. I believe MARC was the > umbrella name/company for a number of different products. > > He got me a summer job there - I had to print out the sources and then make > copies for everyone. We also wired the offices with rs-232 runs to the PRIME > lurking in the basement. > > Formative years... > > Sent from my teeny little terminal. > >>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Eric Christopherson >>> <echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote: >>> (BTW, My memory of that acronym is "Machine Assisted Resource >>> Coordinator", a small-sized Unix work-alike developed by Ed Ziemba (RIP) >>> using Leor Zolman's BDS C compiler). >> >> I'm having trouble finding much about this system; most of it is on your >> web page and the Wikipedia page for BDS C, which appears to borrow quite >> a bit from your page. Was MARC an OS itself, or a Unix-like layer on >> CP/M? Is it available to download and play with? >> >> -- >> Eric Christopherson
