4 Jun
1998
4 Jun
'98
5:21 a.m.
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, William Donzelli wrote:
First time I recall seeing this was on a large PDP-11 system many years
ago... After about an hour of watching the display you could pretty much
tell just what the machine (and RSTS) had going on...
-jim
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Well, the guy
at VCF mapped the address, data and register lines of a
Pentium (or 486, can't remember) to an oscilloscope. The scope would jump
all over the place based on what was being done inside the CPU.
This first mention I heard about his trick was for some big iron in the
1960s - I think Burroughs, but do not quote me on that.