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Article #625492Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Questor
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:56
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:56
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On 9 Aug 2018 21:54:48 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: >On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:36:24 -0400, Peter Flass wrote: > >> Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >>> On 8/9/2018 1:45 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: >>>> Elliott Roper <nos...@yrl.co.uk> writes: >>>> >>>>> On 8 Aug 2018, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote (in >>>>> article<21aaeee8-c41a-4442...@googlegroups.com>): >>>> >>>>>> Bitsavers uploaded the system manual for the PDP 11/40. >>>> >>>>>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1140/DEC-11-H40SA-A- >D_PDP-11_40_System_ >>>>>> manual.pdf >>>> >>>>>> 358 pages, undated. >>>> >>>>> Thanks. Unbounded nostalgia. Was there ever a more elegant computer >>>>> than a PDP-11? >>>> >>>> Yes, many. >>>> >>>> >>> *Not* that I disagree... but which other computers do you find >>> elegant??? >>> >>> >> System/360. > >All that base register stuff... Indeed. Base registers, register save sets, No stack instructions, and the difficulty writing re-entrant code... yuck. IBM = I buy memory
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