Wikipedia has some rather odd ideas sometimes.
Is there any source for actual Whirlwind Code? It might give more information
about how people actually used it.
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-------- Original message --------From: Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net>
Date: 9/6/17 8:19 AM (GMT-07:00) To: khandy21yo <khandy2...@gmail.com> Cc:
Timothe Litt <l...@ieee.org>, simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh]
retargetable assembler
> On Sep 6, 2017, at 9:21 AM, khandy21yo <khandy2...@gmail.com> 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.
I wonder why it would say that. PDP1 and TX0 are both 18-bit machines. Their
instruction sets are quite different from each other, and very different also
from Whirlwind judging by the documents on Bitsavers. They are all single
address accumulator machines, but then again so are most other computers of
that era.
paul
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