9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
11:22 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul Koning
Sent: 09 August 2015 19:00
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Classic programming
Those are a bit hard to find, but there?s always DtCyber, the emulator.
And I think I may not have enough 13A sockets to run one of those in my house anyway :-)
I didn't know there was an emulator (never looked to be honest). I will add it to my
to-do list, but my knowledge of these machines is absolutely zero. So getting something
going might be a challenge, especially as it looks like I would also need to find some OS
media somewhere as well.
I do recall learning about the theoretical architecture of the scoreboard though when I
was at University. The University had, iirc, a CDC Cyber 17<something>, which I used
for one of the programming courses (Pascal I think), but I disliked it having come from
using a DECSYSTEM-20.
Now that I think about it, I did do a course on Algol68 at University (although I knew the
language already, having learned it on the DEC machine), and it may well have been on that
Cyber. I can't remember the dialect though, may have been Algol68R.
Regards
Rob
On Aug 9, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Robert Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Koning
> Sent: 09 August 2015 18:22
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Classic programming
>
>
>> On Aug 9, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Robert Jarratt
>> <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> I used to like Algol68, and got to play with an implementation
>> called Algol68C
> on a DECSYSTEM-20 in the late 70s. Occasionally I ask if anyone has
> got the media for it, I still live in hope. I think there are some
> other implementations around, I should make the effort to try one some
time.
There was a quite good Algol 68 for the CDC 6000 series.
Maybe I should get one of those then.... :-)