6 May
1997
6 May
'97
8:03 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 KFergason(a)aol.com wrote:
someone can correct me if necessary, but weren't
the first PDP's pretty
"important" in that respect? Suddenly, universities could have their own
systems. or maybe I am dreaming, mixing stories from various books.
Kelly
Actually, the professor for the computer organization & assembly language
course I took this semester continually used the PDP-11 as an example.
It's interesting that, although we were learning 8086 assembly, the code
during the lecture was usually for the PDP-11, and we studied various
aspects of the PDP-11's hardware. The professor thought that the PDP-11
was the perfect system to learn this kind of thing on...
And before you ask, actually the professor in question is only a young man
of 32 years in age.
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca