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Alastair Milne,
Educational Technology Center
Since about 1978 the (then UCSD) p-System has been the Center's preferred operating system and programming environment for microcomputers. Even though DOS's greater success in the marketplace, since the mid 80's, than that of the p-System has caused a slow shift toward DOS in the Center's concentration, the Center still has several years' worth of programmed material from past projects under the p-System, both as dialogues and their support libraries, and more ancillary systems contributing to the programming environment. Its archiving needs therefore span both systems (and, of course, documentation work under UNIX). This will oblige the Center's management to be able to handle and plan for the p-System, to at least a minimum degree, until all p-System programs have been accounted for, whether by porting and adapting to DOS or other current environments, or being discarded.
This document therefore tries to provide a quick reference to future management and programmers who need to gain information on the p-System. It cannot hope to recapture all the experience we have accumulated over the years with it; but we hope that, in conjunction with the three or four generations of p-System documentation that are kept in the lab what it provides will be adequate.