22 May
2020
22 May
'20
12:38 p.m.
I remember sittig in the DEC Ealing (London) Office in 1975 watching a
programmer work on TOPS 10
That was DEC's mainframe operating system.
A foot high of printout all in assembler!!!
On 22/05/2020 20:24, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 5/22/2020 6:06 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
On 5/22/20 2:56 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
wrote:
Thows a PDP 8 to Bill. Batteries and BASIC not included.
Ducks.
Ben.
Now that is really cool. Good old MS
In '83 I was working for DEC and had access to things like BASIC+.
I was amazed at what they could do on a micoprocessor.
In my early days :-)? I was given a project to develop programs
for an LSI-11/02 with 28KW of memory and RX02 8" floppies.? I
got the project because the mainframe programmers I worked with
did not believe anything serious could be done in a machine that
small.? I developed programs that later e\went production using
MACRO-11, Pascal, Fortran and COBOL.? I doubt the products of
modern computer science education could duplicate what I did.
Efficiency is no longer a consideration.? Just throw more hardware
at the problem.
bill