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From: arnie@craywr.cray.com (Arnie Dominguez)
Subject: Re: Free SCOPE 3.2 docs
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Date: 14 Jun 95 15:23:13 CDT

In article <3q2vda$d31@nntp5.u.washington.edu> les@cac.washington.edu (Les Pennington ) writes:
>In article <3q2rtr$h5g@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan) writes:
>|> The CDC manuals have been "sold"--to a former colleague,
>|> no less.
>|> 
>|> But Jim Hogue (hogue@super.org) writes:
>|> > Have my own sets of historic manuals, not looking for any
>|> > more. But to set the record straight; MACE could only be
>|> > described as a derivative of COS, and any association of it
>|> > to SCOPE is like rubbing a cat backwards ;-).
>|> >
>|> > MACE was derived from the Arden Hills system checkout deadstart
>|> > tapes that contained many "keyed in by hand" octal PPU code programs.
>|> > Its a little more complicated than this, but isnt everthing.
>|> 
>|> Thanks for the info.
>|> I dunno much about MACE--I'm not sure why we have the manual.
>|> But looking through it yesterday, I saw that it was similar
>|> to SCOPE, so I rashly concluded it had derived from SCOPE.
>|> 
>|> Mark
>
>My folk memory recalls MACE stands for MAnsfields CE System -- written by
>Greg (?) Mansfield and used by the Arden Hills checkout engineers, who had
>lot's of time on their hands sitting there watching those systems run.  I
>also think the Kronos operating system may have been a MACE derivative. 
>Correct me if I am wrong. 
>
>-Les Pennington
>  
party on