On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:16 -0000, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com>
wrote:
mk wrote:
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
Makes me want to go down to the basement and fire up the Altair. :-)
Please don't, or else I fire up that univ Yugoslavian copy of VAX with
Pascal compiler (where I wrote my first program) and I will start my
first program of ping-pong.
It was a few hundred lines but took 5 minutes to compile; "VAX" was
theoretically multitasking, but when more than 3 people were trying to
do smth on it simultaneously, it was basically seizing up.
Regards,
mk
Puts me in mind of Mario Wolczko's early attempts to implement SmallTalk
on a VAX 11/750. The only bitmapped display we had available was a Three
Rivers PERQ, connected by a 9600bps serial line. We left it running at
seven o'clock one evening, and by nine am the next day it had brought up
about two thirds of the initial VM loader screen ...
You tell these young kids, and they just don't believe you!
There's old, and then there's old. http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/739532 is a
film of EDSAC being programmed in 1951, with a commentary added by Maurice
Wilkes in 1976. Maybe just a bit before my time (by a decade or so :-)
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