Doh!

To the list this time!

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <jvpoll@dallas.net>
To: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@paradise.net.nz>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: PDP8 stuff in droves !!!!


> My *first* love was the TI990 series ... *plenty* of
> in-house apps including IBM SNA communications
> capability including 3270 emulation and RJE (Remote
> Job Entry) and for executing 'jobs' (applications) in
> batch mode on the remotely-sited IBM mainframe ...
>
> The DEC VAX 11/780's were faster, but nowheres as
> versatile (compared to coming off the in-house 990's
> with all those custom apps).The documantation was
> also much more - packed with fluff compared to the
> engineering-staff written TI manuals.
>
> We even had character-based flow-chart entry apps
> that would *then* print graphically on the Printronix
> 'line printers'.
>
> Those were the days - I knew the SCI (System Command
> Interpreter) 'scripting' language by heart. I could
> write "Supervisor calls" directly from SCI in my sleep ...
>
> "Supervisor calls" were normally made in an application,
> and had a particular data structure (all detailed
> in assembly language form) associated with them that
> the 'call' to the OS would fill in for you - BUT they
> could *also* be made directly from SCI (the scripting
> command language)!
>
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@paradise.net.nz>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:36 PM
> Subject: [EE]: PDP8 stuff in droves !!!!
>
>
> PDP8
>
>  http://www.pdp8.net/sitemap.shtml
>
> If you don't know what a PDP8 is you (probably) haven't lived much yet :-)
> (measured in years anyway).
>
> Played my 1st ever computer game on one of these in about 1974 (Spacewars)
> Was actually a PDP9 variant - extra scientific equipment.
> Had *two* full size doors side by side so one could walk inside.
> And a 1980s IBM PC would vastly outclass it (except for the doors and the
> DECtape drives.)
>
>
>

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