bpa wrote: > A fellow PDP-10 coder on DECystem-10/DECsystem-20 with odd instruction > mnemonics such as HRRZM, AOBJN. > The indirect bit where, in assembler, you could do multiple levels of > table lookup in just one instruction - great fun to code but nearly > impossible to maintain.
You can imagine the fun I had trying to port the FORTH interpreter/compiler to it. FORTH is probably the only language that is even more tied to the 8-bit byte than C.... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116079 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
