Re: PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:34

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On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 22:16:46 +0100, Adam Sampson wrote:

> terry-...@glaver.org writes:
> 
>> To be fair, I did give them an XBASIC STR that was fundamentally
>> unsolveable (ask if you want the details).
> 
> There's nothing like a good debugging war story -- go on, then!
> 
> I've been learning PDP-10 assembler lately (through playing with ITS);
> it's a really interesting architecture from the perspective of someone
> who grew up with 80s micros. The combination of regularity and multiple
> ways to do similar operations means there's a very satisfying
> puzzle-solving aspect to it...

Especially when you find that JUMP and SKIP are no-ops.

Hi, Adam!

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