17 Dec
1998
17 Dec
'98
10:06 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, D. Peschel wrote:
An SBC typically has multiple logic devices on board, this one is
microcontroller based (TMS1000 is a 4-bit microcontroller), so all of the
"computer" is on a single chip.
I forgot about you, Mr. InterLibraryLoan. I haven't yet picked up all of
the relevant articles, so if you have copies, let me know by private
email.
von Neumann
toys, such as the Science Fair Microprocessor Trainer I
mentioned earlier.
True. They're essentially small SBC's, right? (And an SBC is a small
computer which happens to be on a single board.) Electronics don't have the
twisted amusement of moving rods and rolling marbles, unfortunately. The first kit
was called SIMON (in honor of Simple Simon). I don't have
It is a very nice machine, though I wouldn't call it a computer in the
strict sense. Berkeley wrote some books (and there may have been some
Scientific American articles) too. Of course, I could be underestimating the power of
Berkeley's machines.
I assume so. Otherwise you'll have to define "computer" for me.
Berkeley also wrote a nice book about LISP (which may
be the only reason why
you can run PDP-1 LISP on your PDP-1 emulator -- the source is published in
the book and it would be VERY hard to find otherwise). But I digress.
Yes, he was a mathematician, so "symbolic programming" was an interesting
paradigm to him. But PDP-1 LISP is available via FTP from Supnik's
archive.
Speaking of programming paradigms, one of the reasons I've always been so
found of the E&S PS-300 was that it used a dataflow language. I found
that a very compelling and completely different way to program. What a
guy that Sutherland was, eh?
-- Doug