Date   : Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:59:39 +0000
From   : julian_stenning@... (Julian Stenning)
Subject: mystery ROMs

 

Off-topic, but in relation to the below....

 

I worked for the University of Cambridge during the 90's providing IT support 
for the Clinical School at the Addenbrookes Hospital site, and had an account
on the old Phoenix mainframe. I seem to remember it using pink book, and
it came to our site via a very long peice of coax.

 

Phoenix was decommissioned in 1995 and replaced by a Unix service, some details
are here http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/fixed_pages/IBM3084.html

 

Julian.
 
> From: philb@...
> To: theom+news@...
> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:49:52 +0100
> CC: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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.
> 
> 
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