1 May
2005
1 May
'05
10:29 p.m.
Brian Roth wrote:
Please no flames.... but back in my younger days when
I used to
(hack?) the Telenet X25 PADs, it seemed like every other machine I
ran into was a Prime with its familiar "Primos" banner. I also had a
grad student that worked for me that HATED the one he used in school
so much that he bought it years later at the Universities surplus
auction, held a party and handed out sledge hammers to everyone. You
can guess the rest.
There was one at Harvey Mudd College -- it was hated by the programmers
there as well. If I remember correctly, it was 8086-like in that it was
a 16 bit architecture extended to address more memory, probably via
segments. I do remember that arrays were limited to 64K.
- J