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by aap_ 7y ago
TOPS-10 was DEC's first operating system, that's where the inspiration for other OSes came from. Not the other way around.
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by aap_ 7y ago
Probably TOPS-10, or rather the PDP-6 Monitor (which later was renamed TOPS-10)
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by aap_ 7y ago
The author argues that the people at Microsoft were very familiar with TOPS-10 (which is not TENEX btw) and in any case the PDP-8 and -11 OSes would have been inspired by TOPS-10, so you're back to TOPS-10 again.
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by aap_ 7y ago
Oh great that this found a new home. I was concerned that it would be scrapped when I saw the ebay listing.
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by aap_ 7y ago
No it's not. Just another failed attempt.
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by aap_ 7y ago
I have a feeling he's from Berlin and doesn't want more people coming here.
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by aap_ 7y ago
Why do you say the scope on the WWI wasn't a useful device? They even had a camera watching the scope to take photos (controlled by the computer) at interesting times.
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by aap_ 7y ago
I'd just like to see a concrete example for once.
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by aap_ 7y ago
Using strings for tokens is probably not how you would ever do this in C. Make the tokens enums.
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by aap_ 7y ago
I was actually more looking for practical issues. Usually the code that I write doesn't even handle strings a lot. Maybe I'm just using other languages for when I do that or maybe I'm using other approaches where others would
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by aap_ 7y ago
More often that not I find myself missing C-type strings in other languages. Being able to just walk through the characters and manipulating them is something I found rather ugly in python for instance. The NUL character is in my experience
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by aap_ 7y ago
I never really got that complaint, I'd like to see some examples of what people consider so ugly about C strings.
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by aap_ 7y ago
I don't like how people on the internet hate on C all the time. To me C is a wonderfully simple and elegant language that I can most of the time very clearly express my thoughts in. I find that this not the case with many other languag
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by aap_ 8y ago
Woah, I never read that before. The PDP-2 never happened and the PDP-3 was a 36 bit PDP-1 design only built once by a customer of DEC. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Thanks for linking this. Looks very cool.
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by aap_ 8y ago
The icon being pjw's face naturally :) http://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html
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by aap_ 8y ago
If you want to talk about 36 bits PDPs, join us on #pdp-10 on freenode :) Other PDPs and lispms are also welcome topics.
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by aap_ 8y ago
You can check out my github repos: https://github.com/aap/pdp6 , https://github.com/aap/pdp10 , but best check out the group if you actually want to run something: https://github.com&#x2F
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by aap_ 8y ago
This is great! And it makes me feel bad for not finishing my FPGA PDP-6 and -10 projects.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Very impressive!
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by aap_ 8y ago
Very cool. I've been meaning to convert 9hist to some version control system too for some time but never got around to it. Glad somebody else did.
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by aap_ 8y ago
I was there in 2009 and 2014 or so and I found it extremely boring. It was meant only for business people, not the general public.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Calling this a lisp is a bit of a stretch. S-expressions aren't lisp if they don't have lisp semantics.
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by aap_ 8y ago
In that case the first C compiler also didn't compile C.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Great talk and quite a few photos of things I had found photos of before.
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by aap_ 8y ago
From UNIX fame: M.D. McIlroy and R. Morris (father of the Morris who wrote the Morris worm)
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by aap_ 8y ago
When was this posted? I think i read exactly that explanation like 7-8 years ago and it really made it click for me. It was a wonderful insight!
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by aap_ 8y ago
Plan 9 C is a different language than ANSI C anyway.
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by aap_ 8y ago
If the loop is so useless, why is it in the code? Probably because it isn't useless. Hence the compiler should not optimize it.
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by aap_ 8y ago
To Europe? The kits come from Europe!

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