Everything about DECSYSTEM-20

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: DECSYSTEM-20A 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: A guide to programming in BASIC PLUSThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Postlude to a PASCAL‐compiler bootstrap on a decsystem‐10Cited 17 times
4. Go sideways: PDP-10A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: PDP-6A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Postlude to a PASCAL‐compiler bootstrap on a decsystem‐10

  C. O. Grosse‐Lindemann, H. H. Nagel · 1976 · Software: Practice and Experience · 17 citations

• The evolution of the DECsystem 10

  C. G. Bell, A. Kotok, T. N. Hastings · 1978 · Communications of the ACM · 8 citations

• A statistical check of the DECsystem-10 FORTRAN pseudorandom number generator

  Stephen E. Edgell · 1979 · Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation · 5 citations

• A virtual terminal program for data transfer between a data general MicroNOVA laboratory computer and a DECsystem-10 timesharing system

  William H. Ganoe, David E. kieras · 1980 · Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation · 1 citations

• Bringing APL down to earth on the DECsystem-10: Standard characters and a standard editor

  Fred A. Masterson · 1981 · Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation · 1 citations

• Use of the DECsystem‐10 at Hatfield Polytechnic to Provide Monitoring of Performance in Multiple‐choice Tests

  W. A. Fox · 1974 · International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A guide to programming in BASIC PLUSBruce Presley · 1983
• 📕HELP plus · 1981
• 📕Basic for the DEC10Irmtraud Seeborg · 1982
• 📕DEC-10 supplement to Lawlor's BasicDavid G. Hart · 1980
• 📕Harvard Business School DECsystem-1070 user's guideHarvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Division of Computer Services · 1978
• 📕Harvard Business School DECsystem-1091 user's guideFrayda Galvin, Kathy Pennington · 1983
• 📕A guide to version 3 of DEC-10 prolog / (by) Lawrence Byrd, Fernando Pereira, David Warren. Prolog debugging facilities / (by) Lawrence ByrdLawrence Byrd · 1980
• 📕Entwurf und Implementation von PASCAL-Erweiterungen für die Bearbeitung relationaler DatenbankenDieter Meyer · 1978

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