On 4/27/2020 9:58 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
NL7776 /SETUP -2
TAD (-7776) /COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE
SZA CLA /SKIP IF OK
JMP IMA8S /JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER
/ IF WE GET HERE, WE'RE NOT A PDP-8/S.
Ok, that made me laugh.....
C
I never had any exchanges with Charles, well, none of significance, but he
could be of rather, um, shall we say strong opinion on topics.
--
John H. Reinhardt
On 4/27/2020 10:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:08:24AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
Charles Lasner. He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to
complications from the COVID-19 virus. I'm fuzzy on his exact
biography, but he was big in the development of OS/8 for the PDP-8 at
DEC. His current project was an update of OS/8 which he called
P?S/8. Apparently he owned multiple LINC-8's according to comments on
the Facebook group.
He also worked onKermit-12, for instance the code that identifies which
PDP-8 machine it is running on. It is quite fun to follow that code. It
can, impressively, separate between a PDP-5, LINC-8, PDP-12, Straight-8,
8/S, 8/I, 8/L, 8/E, 8/A, 6100 and 6120.
Here, search for "MACHINE,.-."
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/d/k12mit.pal
A lot of PDP-8 know-how and trivia went with him, sorry to see him go.
/P
