Talk:PRIMOS

Last Rev. of PRIMOS? 24.x.x.x?

 * Yeah, that's about right from when I last used PRIMOS in 1990. Did you think that it was higher than that? —Optikos 06:43, 11 March 2006 (UTC)


 * 24.0.0.r52 i think, according to http://www.malch.com/prime/ anyway --trash80 (talk) 18:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Unattributed material? Sure is!
There is apparently little written history of Prime and the PRIMOS operating system. What little information appears here comes directly from those of us who worked there or who used PRIMOS as students or customers. Snezzy 20:44, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * used PRIMOS @ college.
 * Programmed Pascal, and RPG II. ( not virtual )
 * Used Prime 750. ( on Heathkit H19 terminals ), had 24 users.
 * Heavy compiler use got them to have a queue for compiling.
 * Real script, when necessary, bypassed queue.
 * Switched to IBM PCs, and Turbo Pascal, next semister.
 * Happy to see under powered PR1ME computer leave.
 * Direct quote from user:
 * "In heaven, they have instant access computers, in hell they have Primes.
 * 2602:30A:2E9C:8A40:CD46:37E:C9D1:6E4D (talk) 17:42, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Other patches at Salford
because online "chatting" using that command, and higher programs using it, was becoming rife -- the impetus behind this was that we only had a limited number of terminals across campus and we needed to free up space for students wanting to do work (if only I'd through of Twitter!)

My personal patch was for the systems at Salford running Oracle so STAT didn't list the thousands of semaphores if you mistyped the second argument (because this ran in the OS you could not stop the output which went on for pages and pages...)

RichardLetts (talk) 18:16, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Potential sources
http://bitsavers.org is a great source of information about past computers. Included PRIME: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/prime/ Jmbourguet 11:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

2006 Preservation
Preserve unsourced claim that, as of 2006 (11 years ago) there was British use being made of the Last of The Mohicans' PRIME Computer:
 * PRIMOS systems are becoming rare but as of 2006 there were still some in use, including a number of Primes running a modified version of PRIMOS in the United Kingdom, supporting a large corporate telecommunications network.

Pi314m (talk) 21:31, 27 September 2017 (UTC)