X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=mudman.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=readme.md;h=a9b5696e285b7539179ab1abb131a8aca839e67e;hp=81942ef5efc42ef0eb64c4d5304bb826d67ea829;hb=HEAD;hpb=152419ad5780491fd3a0a253287aa0eea599ecc6 diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 81942ef..b520d13 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -7,22 +7,20 @@ Report VIII at which covered the period of July 1970 to July 1971 although some have claimed as early as 1969 but provide no sources. -The original MIT-DMS (along with other historically important systems -like AI, MC, anmd ML) were KA- and KL-10 based PDP-10 systems running -the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS.) When they were retired in -1982, four KS-10 systems ("DECSYSTEM-2020") were put in their place in -order to keep ITS running. These were retired from service around 1995. - -This mudman.git repository is named after the MUDMAN directory on -MIT-DMS, which contained documentation about Muddle. +MIT-DM (along with other historically important systems like AI, MC, +and ML) were a group of PDP-10 computers running the Incompatible +Timesharing System (ITS.) This mudman.git repository is named after +the MUDMAN directory on DM, which contained documentation about +Muddle. -Many people have worked on Muddle in one aspect or other over the +Many people have worked on Muddle in one aspect or other over the years. These include (in alphabetical order by first name): Brian Berkowitz, Bruce Daniels, Carl Hewitt, Chris Reeve, Dave Lebling, -David Cressey, Gerald Sussman, Greg Pfister, Jim Michener, Joel Berez, -Marc Blank, Michael Broos, Neal Ryan, Roger Banks, Stu Galley, Sue -Pitkin, Tak To, Tim Anderson and others that will probably never be -known. +David Cressey, Edward Black, Gerald Sussman, Greg Pfister, Jack +Haverty, Jim Michener, Joel Berez, Marc Blank, Michael Broos, Neal +Ryan, Richard Shiffman, Roger Banks, Safwan Bengelloun, Stu Galley, +Sue Pitkin, Tak To, Tim Anderson and others that will probably never +be known. This represents an effort to preseve information about the Muddle programming language by migrating the documentation from aging books @@ -57,13 +55,12 @@ language, especially since there are no longer any DARPA funding concerns. The documents in this repository, including this one, are made -following the CommonMark specification: . +following Pandoc's extended version of Markdown: +. -Converting them to other formats requires that cmark, which is the -reference implementation of Commonmark in C from - or Pandoc from or -some other program that can understand CommonMark be installed on your -system. +Converting them to other formats requires that Pandoc or some other +program that can understand this version of Markdown be installed on +your system. ---