On 7/11/2012 11:39 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On 12 Jul 2012 03:53:03 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
"ALU class"?
Googling gives me no clue.
Arithmetic/Logic Unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181
{diversion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX-11/780 -- incredible...
that used to be considered a "super-mini" when I worked on them; and now
would be shamed by most laptops except for the ability to support so
many users concurrently (let me know when a Windows laptop supports 32
VT-100 class connections <G>)}
Installing Cygwin (a Linux emulation) under Windows appears to add some
VT-100 support but without an easy way to find documentation on whether
it can support 32 of them or not.
I used to work on a VAX 11/780 and also a VAX 8600.
Cygwin has a version of Python available, in case you're interested.
Robert Miles
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