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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