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Mike

A new home for the MTS list. I like it.

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I will try and transfer the files. If folks want the messages transferred we will need to raise $100.

Dave

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I'm good for $20.? Where do I send my contribution?

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testing too

I'll pledge $20 - can I assume you'd accept a PayPal payment?

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Hello, testing

Test passed.

Files are there but it still looks emtpy. Any news?

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MTS Fans,

I started getting to know MTS quite a while back, then put it on the back
burner awaiting the 1996 system release. Now I'd forgotten what I'd learned
about MTS. I haven't heard anything about the 1996 system release lately.
Has any progress been made on the release?




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Kevin



Bruceville, TX

What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.

I'm not sure if i'm misunderstanding your question, but builds on archive.michigan-terminal-system.org go up to D6.0A, dated 18 January 2012, including Hercules configuration.? D6.0A is a patched version (mostly for Hercules compatibility) of D6.0 from 1988.

Also a good starting point seems to be?

I just happened to be googling this all up as I was thinking about setting up an MTS or MUSIC/SP VM.? Too bad that? MUSIC/SP doesn't have TCP/IP under Hercules, as far as I can tell.

Apologies if I'm just repeating what you already know.

Scott

Scott,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:59:21PM -0700, Scott Stillwell via groups.io wrote:

I'm not sure if i'm misunderstanding your question, but builds on
archive.michigan-terminal-system.org go up to D6.0A, dated 18 January
2012, including Hercules configuration.? D6.0A is a patched version
(mostly for Hercules compatibility) of D6.0 from 1988.

I have the available D6.0 releases. I was referring to the future release
based on the 1996 system. A little info from the FAQ:

Q7: Is D6.0 the latest or final version of MTS?

A7: No. D6.0 is the last formal distribution of MTS. It was sent out in 1988.
MTS continued to be developed and used at the University of Michigan (U-M)
until 1996 and at RPI until 1999. While there is no distribution for later
versions of MTS, work is being done now to create an IPLable version of MTS
based on the system that was running at U-M in 1996 shortly before MTS was
shutdown for the last time. While we don't know exactly when that version of
MTS will be available, there is hope that it will be sometime in the first half
of 2012.




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Kevin



Bruceville, TX

What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.

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6.0A seems to be what you want, then.? Its release date in 2012 matches up with their expectation of "sometime in the first half of 2012".

Does it have TCP/IP under Hercules?? The MUSIC/SP docs on the maintainer's site mentions an incompatibility because of incomplete IUCV instruction implementation in Hercules, but it does look like at least some work was done to Hercules after that document was written.