On Feb 29, 2016 5:07 PM, "Rich Alderson" <ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote: > > From: David Griffith > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM > > > One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can > > port Frotz to it. > > The canonical textbook is Ralph Gorin's _Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20 > Assembly Language Programming_ (Digital Press, 1981). Lots of examples, > well thought out presentation. > > It's a shame that Ralph's book has become so rare. (Seriously, who > does the seller asking $1,441.25 for a copy think he's talking to???) > Probably remaindered in the 1990s at any library that had a copy. >
FWIW Amazon lists used copies of ISBN-13 978-0932376121 around $100. I bought a used copy a couple of years ago that turned out to be an ex-library copy. Don't think I paid too much at the time. Still haven't gotten around to looking at it much.