[erlich]

Great post. Hadn't heard of JOSS - enjoyed reading the Wikipedia article.

> The terminals used green ink for user input and black for the computer's response. Any command that was not understood elicited the response Eh? or SORRY.

So cool. Would be cool to have the same font/coloring output as that page in the wikipedia article.

> Web 'timesharing' system

This would be cool too. I'd love some interactive demo as to how this worked.

> In order to support multiple user programs, the PDP-6 hardware was modified to examine bit-20 of any address reference. If this bit was set, the address was in "user space" and was modified so that address zero pointed to the base address of that user.

Interesting!

Mik is cool because of Zig.

[wryun]

Thanks!

JOSS is definitely one of those 'heh, this sounds fun' things, despite being pretty useless. I too am pretty obsessed with the colour changing; I'd love to implement it so it seemed like a typewriter terminal as well (e.g. slow speed, optional sound effects).

I started implementing it in Pony originally to make it truly shared, but then decided it made more sense to just run the code in the frontend and the shared bit would just be common storage (i.e. so you could easily load other people's programs, as you would on the original systems). Of course, haven't actually done any of this yet...