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From: Anthony Shipman
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 04:07

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In article <3338@mindlink.UUCP>, a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:
> > pk...@axion.bt.co.uk writes:
> > 
> >         ... and wasn't the debugger on TOP-20 called `ddt' !!
> 
> The debugger in CP/M was called DDT.  It allegedly stood for "Dynamic Debugging
> Tool."  Yeah, right.  :-)

Actually ddt was originally written for the PDP-1 circa 1960/61. The CP/M ddt 
would be a clone, via the PDP-11 I expect.
-- 
Anthony Shipman                               ACSnet: a...@bohra.cpg.oz.au
Computer Power Group
9th Flr, 616 St. Kilda Rd.,
St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
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From: als@bohra.cpg.oz (Anthony Shipman)
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error me
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