Reply to post: Re: I cut my teeth on a PDP-11

Das blinkenlights are back thanks to RPi revival of the PDP-11

Tom 7

Re: I cut my teeth on a PDP-11

nooo nooo nooo. Did my thesis on a PDP11 (after spending a term or so walking into the Uni Mainframe to see the 'Hardware Fault' light illuminating the unused card punches.

Wow was that a revelation. I went from two lines of code a week to writing atom bomb simulations* (nothing to do with my thesis which was on fibre optic performance).

To be able to write code and not wait a 1/2 day or so for it to be run by the batch system was a fucking revelation. And now I can do it all again on a Pi. Must resist Must resist.

*source code deleted after converting from eV to tonnes TNT!

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