On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2016-01-21 16:58, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> ODT actually stands for On-line Debugging Tool, not Online Debugging
>>> Technique.
>>
>> I recall Octal Debugging Technique.  Anyone else remember that definition?
>
> Seems it either changed over time, or was defined differently on different
> OSes. I checked the current RSX documentation before making that comment,
> but Will responded back that indeed the RT-11 documentation he's looking at
> has Online Debugging Technique.

Yeah... all appear to be in use over time.

> So I wouldn't be surprised if Octal Debugging Technique was also used
> somewhere at some point...

I found Octal Debugging Technique referenced in some docs from 1977
and on a list of DECUS submissions.  I got started with the PDP-8 in
the early 80s, so that's probably where I picked it up.

-ethan
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