Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > It has been in use at STACKEN at least since the beginning of the 80ies
>
> I was meaning before that; somewhere in Scandanavia, I expect? Eh, not that
> important, I guess.
>From Finland. Sold used by DEC Sweden to Stacken, for 1 SEK (aound 20 cents
at that time).
> Few people (but most are right here) can recite PI to enough digits to
> reach the level of inaccuracy. And those who believe that PI is exactly
> 22/7 are unaffected by FDIV. (YES, some schools do still teach that!)
Why remember the digits, when a small program can provide them?
+0un q
Fred Cisin wrote:
> d) The TRULY IMPORTANT issues will never be solved through the use of
> armed forces:
> big-endian V little-endian
> vi v emacs
> DEC V IBM
> CDC V IBM
> TRS80 V Apple
> Atari V Commodore
> IBM V Apple
> Android V IOS
> Linux V Windoze V MacOS
> number of buttons on a mouse
David Griffith wrote:
> I'm looking for someone who knows TOPS10 / TOPS20 well enough to figure
> out for me why this test program won't compile. Once that's done, I can
> complete the firmware for the USB Panda Display an its support within
> klh10. I'll then make more copies of the USB Pan
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Many of us think that the advent of the x86 architecture is what led to
> masochism.
... or masochism led to the x86 architecture.
> bill
--Johnny
Ethan Dicks wrote:
> There are times when video instruction makes sense - describing, for
> example, a chemical reaction that produces major visible change in a
> few moments is better to watch than to try to describe. The vast
> majority of stuff? Teaching programming? I don't want to watch 2
Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Richard Cornwell wants to implement DL10 for his KA10/KI10 simulator,
> but he doesn't have any documentation for it. Any leads?
First question is: since the DL10 is a DMA device for a handful of PDP11s,
what is intended at the other (unibus) end of it?
I ha
Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Jon Elson wrote:
> > I'm not sure the original DEC PDP-10 (KA-10) used microcode, but the
> > KI-10 did.
>
> As far as I understand, the PDP-6 (type 166), KA10, and KI10 were
> hardwired. KL10 and KS10 were microcoded. The Foonly F1 preceeded and
> influenced the KL10 de
