19 Oct
2021
19 Oct
'21
11:25 a.m.
On 10/18/21 10:51 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
[ Warning: you need to be an OF to understand the
references ]
I guess I'm enough of an OF to understand and appreciate much of what's
sed. At least I think so.
I don't think I've ever posted this here...
And trust me, an IBM 3090
was really big iron in those days.
I compared someone to Mel earlier today. They used an unimplemented I/O
instruction as a delay. It reminded me of putting the next instruction
at the sector that just passed the read / write head, thus causing a
delay waiting for it to come all the way around again.
I don't recall the author, but I found it on the
'net.
I don't remember the first place I saw VAXen my children... but I know
that I have always appreciated it. I've even put a copy of it on my
website.
--
Grant. . . .
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