Re: Computers, Anyone? (not to be confused with the existing thread Computers, anyone?)

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From: Michael Black
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:54

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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.  C is fine, and even  interpreted languages are snappy.  I've 
got a quad core 3.4GHz computer now with 8gigs of RAM (and the whole 
computer is tiny), I haven't yet done anything with it to make it really 
work hard.  It idles at a slower speed, I don't even notice.

   Michael


  > Altogether now, 
from those of we regularly toggling > in the paper tape bootstrap ...
>
> 16701
> 26
> 12702
> 352
> 5211
> 105711
>
> ... and there my memory fails in a senior moment  :-)
>
>

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