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Magnus Olsson wrote:

> In article <3AC8C9C6.998CFE2A@csi.com>,
> John Colagioia  <JColagioia@csi.com> wrote:
> >Magnus Olsson wrote:
> >I had a break (which I'm not at liberty to discuss, yet) on the ZIL
> >front, believe
> >it or not.
> Good luck - hope the break turns out to be fruitful.

So far, so good.


> >But, yeah.  One of "my agents" is interrogating MIT people for old
> >software.
> If you're looking for the original files, one possibility may be
> asking on alt.sys.pdp10 - some people there have saved copies of files
> from the old MIT PDP-10's (and IIRC MDL ran on those systems). There
> are even PDP-10 emulators around now, so it may be possible to run MDL
> under emulation.

Hm.  Not a bad plan.  Thanks.


> >And there were apparently two books on MDL printed by MIT press, now out
> >of print,
> >which someone is helping track down for me.
>
> The books should be available through inter-library loan.

That's one of the plans.  It's cooking...


