On 2016-02-27 20:09, Paul Koning wrote:
On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Bill Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:
Or program in binary. Like originally.
I'm not so sure about that. I have documents from as early as 1948 showing
programming in machine language, though each of these use decimal numbers for
the opcodes and addresses. While of course many machines were binary
internally, I've never seen anyone actually code programs in binary.
Well, some very early machines were not binary, but decimal... Konrad
Zuse was a believer in binary, though.
But really, binary, octal or hex. It's just representation. Once you sit
with binary, it is a very obvious and simple step to decide you want it
a bit more compact, and move to octal.
Hell, I think I can still program a PDP-8 straight from my head. The
instruction set is simple enough that I did learn the whole thing.
Programming on the front panel after that is easy.
Johnny
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