On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:08:24AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: > Charles Lasner. He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to > complications from the COVID-19 virus. I'm fuzzy on his exact > biography, but he was big in the development of OS/8 for the PDP-8 at > DEC. His current project was an update of OS/8 which he called > P?S/8. Apparently he owned multiple LINC-8's according to comments on > the Facebook group.
He also worked onKermit-12, for instance the code that identifies which PDP-8 machine it is running on. It is quite fun to follow that code. It can, impressively, separate between a PDP-5, LINC-8, PDP-12, Straight-8, 8/S, 8/I, 8/L, 8/E, 8/A, 6100 and 6120. Here, search for "MACHINE,.-." http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/d/k12mit.pal A lot of PDP-8 know-how and trivia went with him, sorry to see him go. /P
