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Niyan, do you think you could possibly be the most boring poster in the thread???
I guess everyone has their fortes!
Even older language that I used - PDP/11 was the machine - RSTS/E operating system.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Language BASIC-PLUS. Interpreted language. You got it at the READY prompt - which is where you also did O/S stuff like DIR and LOGOUT and all that stuff...
Limited to 16K programs...
And this is a page in the Advanced Statement Features section!!
LISTNH and RUNNH - wow - what a blast from the past (NH is NO HEADING - had to conserve the paper on the ASR-33 machine)...
First time I encountered multi-line conditionals was in QuickBasic. I had no idea that there were older versions of Basic that already had this.
The early implementors of BASIC came from Dartmouth college and worked heavily with Digital Equipment Corp - the maker of PDP and VAX minicomputers. Those versions of the language on DEC machines kept growing while the PC industry was just starting to take that same BASIC and move it onto MS O/S and machines.
Here I am really dating myself - although I really got started in 1977 playing with these machines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICQuote:
Spread on minicomputers[edit]
As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread (for a computer language) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova. The BASIC language was also central to the HP Time-Shared BASIC system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where the language was implemented as an interpreter. Also at this time it was ported into the Pick operating system where a compiler renders it into "pseudo" instruction code, able to be interpreted by a virtual machine.
Train Basic everyday! — said a poster in Russian school
It was during this period that a number of simple computer games were written in BASIC, most notably Mike Mayfield's Star Trek. A number of these were collected by David H. Ahl while he worked at DEC and published in a newsletter he compiled. He later collected a number of these into book form, "101 BASIC Computer Games", which was first published in 1973.[4][5] During the same period, Ahl was involved in the creation of a small computer for education use, an early personal computer. When management refused to support the concept, Ahl left DEC in 1974 to found the seminal computer magazine, Creative Computing. The book remained popular, and was re-published on several occasions.[6]
My father was an engineer at DEC for a couple decades before he retired. I have some vague memory of either an octal or hex calculator. Octal would make more sense, since it was DEC, but I'm not sure that I would have really noticed the missing 8 and 9 keys, so I would guess that it was probably a hex calculator.
Machines had bit-switches to load the boot address - the size of oven dials. Light's blinking as the pc-ran-through the memory locations of code.
[edit] pc - program counter - not personal computer!!!! [/edit]
You could read the lights at the moment of a crash and know all kinds of stuff.
The race is heating up, so I'll just add this.
Oops, crossed up szlamany.
The Altair seen in WarGames also had the lights and toggle switches. You might learn all kinds of things from the values at the time of a crash, but those processors ran kind of slow. Watching LEDs for a register in a modern CPU would just show a steady light with an occasional flicker.
Window xyz (Not Responding)!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
It's bad because I really don't understand how those machines work, or what they did.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany