Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Steve Peltz
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <aZYkYDAhMQH2Ewas@precipice.demon.co.uk>,
Spam Loser  <spambin@precipice.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Today it would be described as a RISC machine.

A Data General Nova would NOT be described as a RISC machine. It was
a relatively classic accumulator-based architecture. One of the more
interesting features was with indirect addressing - the indirect address
was 15 bits, plus another indirection bit. You could have an infinite
loop without ever getting past the effective-address calculation.

What I liked about the one I used (where I first learned assembly
programming) was it had core memory - after running pass 1 of the
assembler, we had to move to another room; turned off the computer,
wheeled the rack to another room, turned it on, and started pass 2.

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From: peltz@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/14
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