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Yep, sends me back almost a half century (gadzooks, am I really 70 years old?). PDP-11/40 and DECUS days. So often I heard the phrase, "Bliss is ignorance..."
by CliffStoll 6y ago
Yep, sends me back almost a half century (gadzooks, am I really 70 years old?). PDP-11/40 and DECUS days.
So often I heard the phrase, "Bliss is ignorance..."
- donut 6y agoHi Cliff. What did you use BLISS for? Low level system stuff, or codes for astronomy?
- vogelke 6y agoNot Cliff, but I remember BLISS from early '80s Air Force work. It's the only thing I know that could beat compiled Fortran for things like signal processing. That code absolutely flew.
- CliffStoll 6y agoOh, I did system work with BLISS - I was trying to connect a PDP-11 to a set of motors (which controlled a small telescope). Much later, I used BLISS on a VAX/780 at Space Telescope Science Institute - making an image editor interface into VMS. Long time ago!