Re: Anyone have an idea?

[Richard Mateosian <xrmxrm -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I programmed that one too. And the Data General Nova, the Varian 620i,
The HP 2115, and some of their relatives -- all in assembly language
of course.

However, the PDP-11 had the most wonderful macro assembler. With the
right macros, assembly language can be a lot clearer than some higher
level languages. We evaluated that assembler against C in 1974 and
decided that C couldn't do what we needed.  ...RM


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:

> The PDP-11 had lots more lights to play with.
>

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Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- pacbell -dot- net>
Berkeley, California
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