On Friday 24 May 2002 10:05 am, David Boyes wrote: > (BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. > 20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full > DEC...8-)).
This past weekend, at an SF convention, I had my first opportunity to actually *see* a DEC PDP-8. In college I programmed PDP-8 assembler under a hardware simulator that was written in WATFIV which, in turn, was a sort of interpreted FORTRAN. Layers within layers. I liked the PDP-11 instruction set, by the way, but the PDP-8 was just a bit too primitive even for my retro tastes. Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)
