AID - the JOSS language for TOPS-10

AID, or the Algebraic Interpretive Dialogue, was DEC's first public version of the JOSS interpreter for the PDP-6/10. JOSS - the JOHNNIAC Open Shop System - was an early time-shared language created at the RAND corporation in 1963. This ran on JOHNNIAC, a computer they had built in house, and offered 20-30 users who were not expert programmers the ability to write short mathematical programs. By…