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Article #625609Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:31
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:31
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Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> writes: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Elliott Roper wrote: > > > >> I guess everybody's idea of elegance is skewed by the first machine you >> really really loved. >> > I think that's true. I started with the 6502 and when I started > looking at 8080 code, it looked "odd". Just different from what I was > used to. I moved to the 6809, lots of similarity to the 6502, and > then the 68000, but didn't stick with it since that clearance Atari > 520st had a fault that I never fully tracked down. I think one > reason I didn't use Linux until 2001 was because I kept hoping to come > across a used Mac that was good enough to run Linux, me wanting to > stick with the 68000. That didn't happen, though after I bought a used > 200MHz Pentium to run Linux in 2001, I soon found a very cheap Mac > 6100 which had the RISC CPU in it and could run Linux, but I never got > to that. > > Of course, by then it was really just habit, it's not like I've ever > programmed anything in assembly language after the 6809. And for *any* of those, the discovery of how clean the -11 was should have been a revelation. The only machine I've ever worked on that remotely approximated the clean-ness of that was the Motorola 6811. The funny thing being I do a lot of hobby assembly programming now on PIC processors, which are just plain *weird* from any standpoint you care to name (and I say this from the perspective of someone who has done assembly programming on a CDC 6400), but is just perfect for little embedded applications.
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