24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
1:08 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
My apologies, but I've always found bit-twiddling
fun. It seems that
every platform has some peculiar characteristic that can be exploited
to good advantage.
I found this interesting too. Besides, it is no less germane to
old
computers than details of TTL operation.
Some platforms require total submission to peculiarity. I have been
playing with a PDP-8 over the last year. It can only be programmed
efficiently when you accept it as it is. It just does not do modern
programming paradigms.
It is entertaining to spend the evening trying to eliminate the last
unnecessary cycle from a program...
-chuck (a different chuck)