24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
1:48 a.m.
Charles H Dickman wrote:
Some platforms require total submission to
peculiarity. I have been
playing with a PDP-8 over the last year. It can only be programmed
efficiently when you accept it as it is. It just does not do modern
programming paradigms.
It is entertaining to spend the evening trying to eliminate the last
unnecessary cycle from a program...
Well it does make for Software Updates to come out a Tad Slower
than most systems. Look at the ADVENTURE update, almost 20
years later. :)
-chuck (a different chuck)
PS: Does anybody have
the PDP-8 Adventure link,(updated)
and the link for a GOOD DOS terminal program.
Thanks