gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR) (04/27/91)
It looks like a lot of people have a warm spot for the old DEC 36-bit
machines (PDP-10, Decsystem 20). But does anybody have any code that
really needs to run on them? Running ITS counts as alt.religion.computers...
examples of reasons:
1) it's all assembler, and lots of it.
2) it's all BLISS-10 (argh!)
3) it needs 72 bits for floating point
4) ???? other reasons
Don't get me wrong - I hacked assembler on those machines for decades(!?!?!)
(well, 1 1/2+ decades), and had lots of fun. The question is, is this
architecture really dead?
geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
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