[HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness....

hvlems at zonnet.nl hvlems at zonnet.nl
Wed Jul 13 16:08:12 PDT 2011


A CDC 6000 no less, that's a 60 bit architecture right?
SCOPE (?) is somewhat arcane though. I remember entering an Algol program and then compiled it. Somebody asked a question and having forgotten what I'd done,   tried to compile again. The OS said:
No such file or at end of file. 
The user had to type the REWIND command. The compiler could then read the sourcefile again :-)
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Verzonden: 13 juli 2011 16:52


On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:39 AM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:

Ah, so that's your specification for an interesting system: weird with DECnet :-)

Apart from the DECnet requirement, if you want weird I don't think you can top a CDC 6000 series machine.   The size can be a bit problematic, I suppose.

My dream (about 10% complete) is to build a replica in an FPGA.   I have the schematics to do it, it's just a whole lot of work...

	paul



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