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Article #625499Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:27
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:27
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On 8/16/2018 10:56 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2018-08-15 16:14, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] > >> A couple of years later I did get my hands on the source code - >> all 14,000 lines of FORTRAN - and ported it. The hard part was >> the terminal I/O - going from character-mode asynchronous terminals >> to block-mode synchronous ones took some work. But I had already >> done that for Adventure, so all I had to worry about were things >> like translating the ASCII files (including encrypted ones) to >> EBCDIC, writing functions for the bitwise logical operators which >> Univac FORTRAN didn't support, and replacing all the RAD50 constants >> with normal character constants. But at least I finally got to play >> Dungeon right to the end. > > That's what I call dedicated. :-) > That's crazy dedication! Now we know how bad Charlie Gibbs wanted it! -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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