From: Glen Slick Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:43 PM > On Feb 29, 2016 5:07 PM, "Rich Alderson" <ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org> > wrote:
>> From: David Griffith >> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM >>> One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can >>> port Frotz to it. >> The canonical textbook is Ralph Gorin's _Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20 >> Assembly Language Programming_ (Digital Press, 1981). Lots of examples, >> well thought out presentation. >> It's a shame that Ralph's book has become so rare. (Seriously, who >> does the seller asking $1,441.25 for a copy think he's talking to???) >> Probably remaindered in the 1990s at any library that had a copy. > FWIW Amazon lists used copies of ISBN-13 978-0932376121 around $100. I > bought a used copy a couple of years ago that turned out to be an > ex-library copy. Don't think I paid too much at the time. Still haven't > gotten around to looking at it much. For most hobbyists, even $100 is too much. I was simply astounded at the chutzpah of the seller--right there on the Amazon list--who was asking nearly $1500 for a copy. From: Mark Wickens Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 11:32 PM > There is a copy on archive.org: > https://archive.org/details/introductiontode00step Well, I was going to point that out to my friend Ralph, but I see that it is a different book with the same title, by one Stephen Longo, which has been stolen. From: John H. Reinhardt Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 5:03 AM > There is a similar document online at Columbia with parts written by > Ralph Gorin > <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/dec20/assembler-guide.txt> Rather, adapted from Ralph's early course notes (he was teaching the class at Stanford for a few years before the book was published) by Frank da Cruz and Chris Ryland. I know that Frank and Ralph were friendly, so I'm not surprised that Ralph shared his notes. From: Pontus Pihlgren Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 5:13 AM On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:02:47AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt wrote: >> <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/dec20/assembler-guide.txt> > I think this is the same file, but in HTML-formatted with one page per > chapter: > http://pdp10.nocrew.org/docs/instruction-set/pdp-10.html No, that's an HTMLized version of the INFO file that accompanies the original EMACS (the one written in MIT AI Lab TECO for the PDP-10). So David, there are alternatives to the Gorin textbook. I simply prefer it for paedogogical reasons. Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
