PIC List,
        I only casually read the recent thread on CRT memory, so if this
has already been mentioned I apologize, but it looks like the perfect
forum for this list's experts in the logistics of minutiae.

Dr Dobbs Journal Jan. 1998 (pp. 18)

"

 Three Programmers and a Baby

        To celebrate the 50th birthday of its "Baby", the prototype to the
Manchester Mark I, the University of Manchester is sponsoring a
programming contest. Tom Kilburn, who built Baby and wrote its first
program is chairing the panel of judges. The winning entry will be run on
a replica of Baby.
        Baby used a CRT memory that stored 32 32-bit words, had 7
instructions, and could execute 700 instructions per second. Its first
program, determining the largest factor of 2^18 (sic) was 17 instructions
long and took 52 minutes to run.
        The deadline for entering is March 31, 1998. More information is
available at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/prog98.

        -- Eugene Eric Kim

"

        If programming PICs isn't practice for this what else is.

        Matt

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