Date   : Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:49:52 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: mystery ROMs

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 01:20 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:
> The help is slightly interesting... it implies that the PHX ROM was used for
> (presumably?) linemode terminal access to the Phoenix mainframe, and the
> SSMP ROM used for fullscreen editing on Phoenix using ZED (the Cambridge
> editor for the IBM 370).

Yeah, so it seems.  SSMP is "Simple Screen Management Protocol", which
seems to have been part of the Coloured Book protocol suite (more
specifically, the Fawn Book).  I'm not sure what protocol the PHX ROM
spoke.

I do have copies of both those ROMs as well if anybody is interested in
them.

> Phil, do you fancy submitting them to The BBC Lives?  I doubt there would be
> any copyright issues.

Yeah, good plan.  I'll do that presently.

p.