From: Klaus Zeuge To: js-cgi@inwap.com Subject: misc links and quotes At one time or other, the following links existed. I have not tested them at this time. 1995: stale - http://www.pt.hk-r.se/~pi92mti/home/pub/jargon.original works - ftp://ftp.cs.uiowa.edu/pub/jones/pdp8/ works - http://www.docs.uu.se/~pem/AlicesPDP10/AlicesPDP10.html works - http://www.lysator.liu.se/~cardell/scriptures.html works - http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/ works - ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/literary/obi/hakmem.order/ stale - http://www.pt.hk-r.se/~di92th/texts.html requires login - ftp://ftp.biostat.washington.edu/pub/pdp-10/ --- (From "THE DECSYSTEM-20 AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (1977-1988)" by Frank da Cruz and Christine Gianone, http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html) "Meanwhile, as the computer industry struggles to turn PCs into multiuser systems and to reinvent multiprocessing, security, and other forgotten concepts, it might profitably pause to look back at the past decades, when the expense and limitations of computing equipment forced designers and coders to be... well, smarter." --- Re: EXTEND, MOVSO Ralph Gorin is alleged to have commented on the pdp10 string instructions during his time at XKL. The COBOL compiler is said to have relied heavily on these instructions. None of these is fast. None of these is thoroughly tested. They all require a lot of registers for setup. They are uncharacteristic of other PDP-10 instructions. ---