JOSS-II

Documentation for JOSS

The RAND Corporation has a number of documents describing JOSS

• RM-5437-PR JOSS: Assembly Listing of the Supervisor (RAND original)
• RM-5367-PR The JOSS Notebook (RAND original, Stanford copy)
• RM-5322-PR JOSS: Problem Solving for Engineers (RAND original)
• RM-5270-PR JOSS: Central Processing Routines (RAND original)
• RM-5257-PR JOSS: Disc File System (RAND original)
• RM-5220-PR The JOSS Primer (RAND original, Stanford copy)
• RM-5218-PR JOSS: Console Design (RAND original, Stanford copy)
• RM-5216-PR JOSS: User Scheduling and Resource Allocation) (RAND original, Stanford copy)
• RM-5058-PR JOSS: Introduction to a Helpful Assistant (RAND original)
• RM-5044-PR JOSS: Console Service Routines (The Distributor) (RAND original)
• RM-5028-PR JOSS: Arithmetic and Function Evaluation Routines (RAND original)
• RM-4162-PR JOSS: Scenario of a Filmed Report (RAND original)
• RM-4162-PR JOSS: Experience with an Experimental computing Service for Users at Remote Typewriter Consoles (RAND original)
• P-3560 JOSS: Rubrics. (Bitsavers copy)
• P-3486 JOSS: Introduction To The System Implementation (Bitsavers copy)
• P-3131 JOSS: Examples of the use of an Experimental On-Line Computing Service (RAND original)
• P-2922 JOSS: A Designer’s view of an Experimental On-Line computing sytems (RAND original)
• JOSS: Program Notes and Tests (Bitsavers copy)

There are some documents describing the user community and history of JOSS:

• R-918 The JOSS Years: Reflections on an Experiment
• P-7857 Operations Research and the RAND Corporation
• P-7172 Artificial Intelligence: A Rand Perspective (Stanford copy)
• P-3940/7 The JOSS Newsletter – November 1967 - June 1971
• P-3313 Jonniac Eulogy
• N-2555-RC Recent Contributions of Information Sciences Research at RAND to Modeling- and Simulation-Based Policy Analysis
• The Library of Computer and Information Services
• RAND and the Information Evolution - A History in Essays and Vignettes
• Project AIR FORCE 50th
• Interview with Willis Ware

Other JOSS-related documents:

• Picture of a JOSS Console
• JOSS Session - JOHNNIAC OPEN-SHOP SYTEM
• H-616 JOSS Console Instruction Manual
• DEC-10-AMZC-D MACRO-10 Assembler Programmer’s Reference Manual
• Datamation Vol. 10 No. 11, p32 The JOSS System
• Type 630 Data Communication System, Apr. 64, DeRamp copy

Moreover there are a few RAND documents with JOSS program listings:

• RM-6338-ARPA A Dynamic Programming Approach to Network Problems : A Model for On-Line Computer Systems
• RM-6302-PR Resource Analysis Model for the Arkansas State Police
• RM-6279-PR JASP: A Simulation Language for a Time-Shared System
• RM-6248-PR JOSTRAN: An Interactive JOSS Dialect for Writing and Debugging FORTRAN Programs
• RM-6083-PR The Pilot Training Study: A Cost-Estimating Model for Undergraduate Pilot Trainig
• RM-5752-PR PRAM: A Preliminary Repair Level Analysis Model
• RM-5692-PR Testing Grouped Data For Exponentiality
• RM-5653-PR COMBAT: A Series of On-Line Computer Programs for Quick-Response Force Cost Analysis
• RM-5423-PR Viet Cong Logistics
• RM-4952-PR Numerical Methods for Inverting Positive Definite Matrices
• RM-4796-PR Cost and Effectiveness Impacts of Order Quantity Changes
• R-941-PR MESA: A Model for Multiple-Exchange Synthesis and Analysis
• R-772-PR Decision in Battle: Breakpoint Hypotheses and Engagement Termination Data
• R-670-PR BOOST: On-Line Computer Program for Estimating Powered-Rocket Performance
• R-565-ARPA PREMIR: A Prediction Model for Infiltration Routes
• R-1820-PR Damage Probabilities for Small-CEP, Low-Yield, Airbust/Groundburst Attacks AGainst Selected PVN and QVN Point Targets
• R-1639-PR An Effectiveness Model for Multiple Attachs Against an Airbase Area Complex
• R-1550/8-PR Standard Atmosphere Calculations with JOSS
• R-1278/1-PR Estimating Bomber Penetration and Weapons Effectiveness
• P-3605 Use of Multiple On-Line, Time-shared computer consoles in Simulation and Gaming
• P-3146 Conversations with the Johnniac Open-Shop System

There are a number of documents that mention JOSS in their abstract but are unfortunately not accessible:

• RM-6359-PR MEMO: A Model for Evaluating Missile Observation Information.
• RM-6262-PR Observations of the 1969 Inferior Conjunction and Greatest Western Elongation of Venus : Data Catalog and Preliminary Analysis
• RM-6204-PR A Cost Analysis of Minimum Distance TV Networking for Broadcasting Medical Information
• RM-5846-PR Applying the Concepts of Program Budgeting to the New York City Police Department
• RM-5466-PR STROP: Player’s Manual for JOSS Version
• RM-5359-PR JOSS: 20,000 Hours at the Console–A Statistical Summary
• RM-5260-PR Practical Aspects of Calculating Skin Friction Coefficients by Coles’ Theory of Compressible Turbulent Flows
• RM-5217-PR JOSS: Accounting and Performance Measurement
• R-723 Estimation in a Model that Arises from Linearization in Nonlinear Least Squares Analysis
• R-513 A Study of User Behavior in Problemsolving with an Interactive Computer
• R-1550/9 A Root-Finding Program for JOSS
• R-1550/7 Curve Fitting on JOSS – Library Program curvefit
• R-1094 VIMCOS II: A Workload Control Simulation Model for Exploring Man-Machine Roles in Decisionmaking
• R-1019 The MODIA Decision Process for Developing Strategies of Air Force Instruction
• P-6264 Air-launched missile attacks on ships
• P-5281 The Numerical Solution of Exponential Equations
• P-5069 The Motion of a Particle in Orbit around a Growing Mass.
• P-4950 A JOSS Program for the Geodetic Inverse Computation
• P-4738 Multi-Access Computing Research at RAND
• P-4126 A Model of Long Delays at Busy Airports
• P-3863 Progress Report and Current System Description
• P-3648 Data Automation Development and Systems Implementation–Some Problems and Conclusions
• P-3646 COMBAT : A Series of On-Line Computer Programs for Force Cost Analysis
• P-3547 The Numerical Integration of Kinetic Equations for Chemical Systems Having Both Slow and Fast Reactions
• P-3485 A subject heading authority list, computer prepared