PDP-8 Handbooks - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Feb 1999

...
 Our library has volume 1 of a two-volume _Introduction
to Programming_
set.  I've always wondered what was in the other volume.  (It covers
details of the languages supported on the PDP-8.)  But I've never seen
the two-volume set anywhere else, just a one-volume book. 
The second volume was the _programming languages_ handbook.

...
 And while I'm at it... We have the OS/8 handbook as
well.  I've never
been clear on what the different versions of OS/8 are, so I don't know
how early or late our handbook is. 
I'm afraid I can't speak to that... when I first used a pdp-8, it was
with 4k and an ASR33 -- it took too long to load editor, then assembler,
then linker by low speed paper tape, so we learned really quickly
how to hand-code and toggle the programs in through the front panel.

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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