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Article #624703Re: Computers, Anyone? (not to be confused with the existing thread Computers, anyone?)
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:49
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:49
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On 03/07/2018 19:54, Michael Black wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: > >> Obsolescence Guaranteed are now shipping their ersatz PDP11/70 >> front panels, to be used with a RPi3 running SimH. >> >> It'd be good to get back to a (reasonably) orthogonal ISA >> with memory being as acessible as are registers. >> > But everything runs so fast that much of the time you don't need to do > assembly. A computer is a fascinating complex machine to be appreciated for its own sake and so assembly (or even machine code for the real aficionado) is the only way to deal with it. Also, spent the first 10 years of my professional life as a PDP11 assembly softie. So there! :-)
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