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SAIL's main feature is a symbolic data system based upon an associative store (based on the [[LEAP (programming language)|LEAP system]] of Jerry Feldman and Paul Rovner). Items may be stored as unordered sets or as associations (triples). Other features include processes, events and interrupts, contexts, [[backtracking]] and record garbage collection. It also has block-structured macros, a coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building search trees and association lists.

A number of interesting software systems were coded in SAIL, including some early versions of [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] and [[TeX]], a document formatting system called PUB,{{citation- needed|date=October 2014}} and the first general purpose, interactive spreadsheet program called BRIGHT.{{citation- needed|date=October 2014}}

In 1978, there were half a dozen different operating systems for the PDP-10: [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] (MIT), [[WAITS]] (Stanford), [[TOPS-10]] (DEC), [[CMU TOPS-10]] (Carnegie Mellon), TENEX ([[Bolt, Beranek and Newman|BBN]]), and [[TOPS-20]] (DEC, based on TENEX).

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==External links==

*[http://www.xidak.com/mainsail/documentation_set_1630_html/docset-MLANM.html Documentation for MAINSAIL.]

*[http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decuslib20-01/01/decus/20-0002/sail.tut.html A SAIL Tutorial from the DECUS PDP-10 library tapes]

*[http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decuslib20-01/01/decus/20-0002/sail.man.html Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Memo AIM-289/SAILON 57.4: SAIL Manual August 1976]

*[http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decuslib20-01/01/decus/20-0002/sail.man.html Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Memo AIM-289/SAILON 57.4: SAIL Manual August 1976]

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