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Guy Steele has a talk [1] in which he recounts making some sort of utility program for the contemporary of the PDP-8, the IBM 1130. He describes all the gymnas
by EdwardCoffin 4y ago
Guy Steele has a talk [1] in which he recounts making some sort of utility program for the contemporary of the PDP-8, the IBM 1130. He describes all the gymnastics he went through to try to pack it into a single punch card, and also describes the benefits of having such a program on a single punch card rather than a series of them.
[1] "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPK6t7echuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPK6t7echuA
- DougMerritt 4y agoGuy Steele of course is a one of a kind, but just BTW, back in the day it was fairly common practice to try to squeeze bootstraps or other utilities onto one (or at least a tiny number of) cards, just as it was common to try to achieve the same thing with toggling in the same thing on front panel switches ("Ow, my aching fingers" :)