[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > AFAIK, no. I believe that the original development was on some > PDP-11's (11/45's?)
No, the original development was on a PDP-7, and in assembler. The second machine it ran on was a PDP-11, also in assembler. It was after that port that Dennis wrote "C", to make the next port easier. I think that for the most part he succeeded. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Okay, I have to ask: What's a "RIM loader"? O.K.: First you toggle in the BIN loader. On the PDP-8 this was seventeen twelve-bit instructions, so you have to flip (and get ABSOLUTELY CORRECT) 204 switches, and this was AFTER you toggled in the correct starting address. That BIN loader then loaded in a paper tape that had the RIM loader on it, which (hopefully) stayed in memory to load in things like an Editor, Assembler and (eventually) your program. However, with only 4K words (and poor programming skills) you usually overwrote the RIM loader with your program bombing (er, ah) running, so you had to start ALL OVER AGAIN. Ah, the good old days. :-) md -- ============================================================================= Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(SM) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (SM)Linux International is a service mark of Linux International, Inc. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
