18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
2:11 p.m.
On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Oh good lord. Can we give this up? SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT
COMPUTING IS MORE THAN JUST SOFTWARE. Get over it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
For the
machines I mentioned, the PDP8s, PDP11s, and Philips P800s
have a
hardware front panel that works even without any boot disks. You can
toggle in short programs and run them -- certainly programs to cause
As soon as you do that, you're running software - even if your
intention
of interacting with it is only to cause output on a scope, even if
it's
one opcode at a time. :-)