I have some time on my hands, so I’ve been catching up on all those projects I never got around to. Today’s is a JOSS interpreter based on my FOCAL code.
I’ve been poking about but not very successfully… does anyone have a collection of original JOSS code (PDP-6 version)? The only thing I found so far is the one example in the wiki article, which is not in the original dialect.
In order to rule it out, I can say that there are none in RAND’s The JOSS Newsletter (1967–71). It does provide a fascinating insight into an early “open shop” (aka timesharing) system was run, however.
Some promising-looking citations in
The JOSS Years: Reflections on an Experiment
including
JOSS: Examples of the Use of an Experimental On-Line Computing Service
Perhaps see also
JOSS Session (HoPL, ACM)
These might all be too trivial, or not for the PDP-6 version, but I offer them for interest
JOSS : Problem Solving for Engineers
This has a reading list at the end
THE JOSS PRIMER
Likewise, a bibliography in
JOSS central-processing routines
OK I did find a few things, including the example on the 'wiki which may or may not be canonical.
Going to try to have it out in the next week or so.