On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:36:19 -0500, Paul wrote: <...> > >Speaking of PDP-11, I did assembler on it for 14 years then ported the >entire thing to Turbo Pascal (thankfully *no* octal any more): > http://brenemanlabs.com/MachOne5.htm >For real-time video machine control in the PC folks before me had to use >complex intelligent serial port cards. But the 16550 UARTS had come out >and I used them as the video tape machine commands all fit in the 16 >byte FIFO. So I had 50,000 lines of all pascal code (no assembler) with >a third of it running 30 times a second (frame rate) in an interrupt >routine with no interrupts on 16 serial ports. > >Some PDP-11s are still being used: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/ >
Wow! If it weren't for the fact I've retired, my resume would be in the mail. Debugging with assembler listings and ODT used to be interesting work! A little slow, maybe, but hey, you can't have everything... :) Brian. _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
