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Article #625581Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Questor
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:57
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:57
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On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 22:16:46 +0100, Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> 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... One amusing pastime is to list *all* the different instructions that can be used to zero an accumulator...
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