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Article #7Re: CDC nostalgia
From: kjm
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 1990 00:19
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 1990 00:19
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In article <19272@shamash.cdc.com>, rrr@hare.udev.cdc.com (richard r ragan 234-4
340) writes:
>
> Some of the PP code was still in octal and some had
> already been disassembled (by someone named Bass as I
> recall). The other interesting thing was the
> existence of 007. Not James Bond but a PP program named 007
> that simulated the execution of the CPU as a diagnostic
> aid. On the console you would see S=0xxxxx instead of P=0xxxx
> for the P register.
We also (at UT Austin) had a 007, but it provided a stable, high-resolution
clock for system performance tracing.
--
The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of
anyone else, including my wife, our cats, and my employer.
Kenneth J. Montgomery Senior Operating System Specialist
kjm@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu University of Texas System
Center for High-Performance Computing
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!kjm From: kjm@ut-emx.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: CDC nostalgia Keywords: CDC, nostalgia, 6600 Message-ID: <27190@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 30 Mar 90 00:19:58 GMT References: <19272@shamash.cdc.com> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 21