in 118305 20090621 214008 Phil Runciman ph...@aspexconsulting.co.nz wrote:
How many instruction sets have you used? I have used at least 9.
IBM 1401
IBM 1410
IBM 7090/7094
IBM 1620
IBM 360
IBM System/7
IBM 1130
IBM 1800
IBM Series/1
Intel 8080 etc
Motorola 6800 etc
Texas 9900 (my second
-From: Bob Martin [mailto:bob.mar...@excite.com]
-.Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 6:07 p.m.
-Subject: Re: RE: Good books in computer science?
-in 117815 20090617 221804 Phil Runciman ph...@aspexconsulting.co.nz wrote:
-Because it reminds me of when things went badly wrong. IBM360, Von Neumann
In message mailman.1928.1245616909.8015.python-l...@python.org, Phil
Runciman wrote:
What I can say is that for scientific/engineering calculations the RPN of
KDF9 was Great because assembler was no harder than using algol60 for the
calculations part of the problems I worked on.
in 117815 20090617 221804 Phil Runciman ph...@aspexconsulting.co.nz wrote:
Because it reminds me of when things went badly wrong. IBM360, Von Neumann =
architecture, no hardware stacks ...
IMHO Burroughs and ICL had better approaches to OS design back then but had=
less resources to develop their
