On 06-Sep-17 09:21, khandy21yo wrote: > Reading the Wikipedia page about Whirlwind, it mentions that the pdp1 > is a direct descendent, so would a pdp1 assembler work? Or a tx0 > Assembler? I don't know if these already exist or not. > > Is the pdp1 a transistorized Whirlwind as the Wikipedia article > suggests? We already have an emulator for that. > > Anyway, I remember reading about the tx0, and that they were always > modifying the instruction set in hardware. For this early machine, was > there even an official assembler Format? And which character sets did > it use, probably not ascii. > ASCII didn't exist in the whirlwind timeframe; not until mid 1960s. IIRC, TX0 used a 5 level code from the Frieden flexowriter. Probably similar to Baudot. Don't know about whirlwind.
yes, the architecture of early machines was fluid...
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