OT: Data General - was: Re: Assembly language programming in unix environment

Ray Leventhal ubuntu at swhi.net
Mon Sep 21 14:25:50 UTC 2009


Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

<snip>


> I spent about 25 years making a very nice living writing things in 
> assembler - from data
> capture to an entire (simple) OS.  Mostly for Data General 16-bit minis, 
> but some larger stuff
> too.  So you know I have a fondness for it.
<huge snip>


> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
> 
Ah...the good ol' DG days.  I cut my teeth on a Nova 1200 back in 1976 
or so.  My first exposure to octal was using toggles to make the paper 
tape reader work.

Thanks for the flashback/memory, Kevin :)

-R

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