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

[Colin Law]

2009/9/21 Ray Leventhal <ubuntu at swhi.net>:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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>> 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>
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>> 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.
>

If we are reminiscing I started on an Elliot 803 in the 60s.  It had a
processor clock of 1kHz I think (that's kiloHz) with a loudspeaker
pulsed from the instruction register if I remember correctly, so when
running a program that you knew well, you could tell where it was by
the sounds it made.  We used it, amongst other things, for designing
automobile alternators.  The program used to take a day or so to run.

Colin