Re: The standard Pascal web site, moved and updated!

On Nov 30, 1:41 am, scott moore <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Richard Engebretson wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 3:07 am, scott moore <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Excellent. Thank you, Scott.
>
> > I don't have anything to add, but your CDC info rings bells. CDC was
> > based here in Minnesota. I remember Otto Schmitt giving a lecture
> > pu****ng "microcomputers" and how people at home could use one for
> > varied tasks. He got no thanks from the "big iron" guys.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rick.
>
> Yea, those things are toys. It's just a passing fad....
>
> Actually my favorite "what if" would have been if DEC had woken up and
> and put the PDP-11 forward as the first 16 bit single chip processor
> in the late 70s (yes, there was a chip LSI-11, but that was three chips,
> complex and microprogrammed), and really pu****ng it as an embedded
> processor with good software sup****t. They would have laid waste to the
> market and changed history utterly, instead of taking a 10 year ride to
> oblivion.
>
> Scott Moore

As a Biophysics student I got around. The Chemistry lab where I worked
had a PDP-11 and I tried hard to learn to use it. Chem students were
building 8080 controls. Otto's EE lab had computers going back to tube
days (talk about refrigeration) and a PDP-4 and 8. Otto also had the
Altair.

Every system had it's good side and bad. The PDP systems were starting
Unix and data processing. The PDP key, IMHO, was the card bus. The
Altair was a pre-built 8080 with a pretty video. The genius of the PC
blended these experiments.

I'm now learning AVR microcontrollers. Funny how little has changed.
Vastly improved electronics, but the same concepts are still there.
There is still a need for readable, maintainable programming. Thanks
for helping anchor Pascal.
Rick.