11 Sep
2002
11 Sep
'02
6:37 p.m.
80 Floppies:
http://users.bestweb.net/~toober/images/Univac04.jpg
This looks quite like the SSP (System Support Processor ?)
of the A-series (again ? , it is over 7 years ago).
That was also a small table with a few 8" floppy disk
drives and to the right a white table surface.
I worked on an 1163 and a 1172 Sperry / UNISYS machine.
Was one of the happy few allowed to program in assembler.
HAd some "odd" things like no stack and some, I still
think IMHO, nice instructions, like EX, execute remote.
The EX instruction was sort of the execution of one
instruction "somewhere else". Compare it to a JSR to a
subroutine of one instruction (besides the RTS of course).
BTW the 1163 is a main frame, so not likely found "at home".
Pity.
- Henk.
