I’d love to see that program. As a UCSD Pascal developer (at UCSD back in the
day) interesting Pascal programs are always something that I’m interested in
seeing/reading.
David
> On Aug 31, 2024, at 7:48 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 8/30/24 21:25, cz via cctalk wrote:
>>> By the way, the earth is round...
>>
>> I'm glad we can agree on this. Of course the Earth is round.
>>
>> It's also hollow.
>>
>> To try and turn this thread around: I'm looking to make an extended memory
>> controller for my pdp8/L. I've got a wire wrap backplane and enough cards to
>> make it work but I've never done wire-wrap on this sort of scale.
>>
>> I've got an old Radio Shack Wire wrap tool and a lot of wire. Is there any
>> sites that discuss how to do reasonable wire-wrapping?
>
> I have a program that takes coordinates of ICs and/or connectors and a net
> list and creates a wiring list for first-level and 2nd level wires with
> shortest length.
>
> It tells what length wire to use.
>
> It is written in Pascal, and uses a genetic algorithm to find the shortest
> path. Sometimes that doesn't give the best wire routing, but it tries. I
> have not used this program in several decades, but I'd be glad to give it to
> you.
>
> Jon
>
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
David Barto
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