Scot's PDPRP Documentation
Scot's PDPRP Documentation
The PDPRP (PDP-11 Replacement Project) is an attempt to change the telescope control system at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) from being run on a PDP-11 to an Intel Linux computer. At the same time, the goal is to modernize and improve the software wherever possible. Since time is a limited resource, however, not all the spiffy features we envision have been added. Much of the proposed future capabilities of the software is described in the User's manuals where appropriate.
Scot
Kleinman - the overall structure/communication of the software,
the Light Beam Control Code, and the GUI and most of the Telescope Control
Software but for the valued contributions of ...
Anders
Johannesson - the coordinate routines used in the Telescope
Control Software and the "point and click" solar image.
John
Varsik - stuck with cleaning up the mess
and adding features after the above two 
bozos have
fled the area. Also contributed supporting Macintosh code.
With Special Thanks to Hal Zirin
for largely letting me do what I wanted to on this project and to
Dennis Dingley, Randy Fear, Jeff
Nenow, and Bill Marquette for their suggestions
and testing time. In particular, Denny's suggestions
and advice have resulted in a significantly better product.
And to 
Ed Nather for
instilling in me his philosophy on doing such instrument-control work.
Technical Notes for the interested or thosed forced to be interested.