[SCC_Active_Members] Do you remember SUPPAK (360 assembler/simulator running on 7094)?

[Paul McJones]

Rich Cornwell, who has written one of the most detailed 704/709/709x 
simulators and who is systematically working out how to run the various 
surviving software packages for those machines, is currently 
reverse-engineering SUPPAK, a cross-development package for developing 
System/360 software on the 7094. He would like to hear from anyone who ...

    ... might have used SUPPAK how jobs were structured. I've been
    trying to build a test job. I have figured out that there must be
    either a S or $ in col 1, ACTIO or TITLE in col 6, and SIMULA or
    ASSEMBL following with options. But I can't get it to see my 360 asm
    code as asm, it keeps thinking it is remarks. From some research I
    have been doing, it looks like it might  have simulated PCP for
    SVC's but not sure.

SUPPAK is only one of the interesting items Rich has run across recently:

    But on a whim I decided too look at adc00112.bcd that I got off 
    Pierce's web site a while ago. After poking around with it I tried
    to list it with my disassembler. PAY DIRT BIG TIME. Tape is a Yale
    IBSYS systems tape! On it I found following goodies:

    TEXT90 - Some sort of early runoff I think.
    OMNITAB - Early release of MINITAB!
    IPL-V - Text processing language.
    SUPPAK - IBM360 asm/sim
    USER - Not sure what it does.
    PRECISE - Again not sure what it does.
    MAMOS/JSYS - Yales interal OS!
    MAD - Mad compiler

        MADTRN - I believe Fortan to Mad translator
        SNOBOL - Snobol system! (not sure yet if it is 3 or 4). Dated 66.
        ALCOR - Algol compiler for 7090.

    Also full set of standard utilities. More changes to extract patches.

    Unfortunatly the tape is blocked and I need to figure out how to unblock
    it to boot it. When I get it bootable I will put it on my site. I
    will also
    work on disassembling the other programs like I did with Suppak so
    we can
    better understand how they worked. ...

So if anyone has information on SUPPAK (or an interest in getting these 
other programs running), please reply directly to Rich and/or me. Thanks!


Paul