[cctalk] CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread James Liu via cctalk
Hi, As some of you may recall, a few years ago I asked for assistance reading a 9 track tape containing IBM S/360 source for Martinus Veltman's computer algebra program, Schoonschip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonschip). With Chuck's assistance, we recovered all the code from the tape. Aft

[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 25, 2024, at 9:43 AM, James Liu via cctalk > wrote: > > Hi, > > As some of you may recall, a few years ago I asked for assistance > reading a 9 track tape containing IBM S/360 source for Martinus > Veltman's computer algebra program, Schoonschip > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoo

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-25 Thread Harald Arnesen via cctalk
Fred Cisin via cctalk [24/04/2024 02.06]: Did the Dimension 68000 (a multi-processor machine) have Z80 and 6502? Commodore 128 had Z80 and 6502 Z80 and 8502, actually. -- Hilsen Harald

[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread James Liu via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 9:54 AM Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > Neat. I vaguely remember that program name from long ago, though I haven't > used it. (Part of why it's familiar is that it's a nice Dutch word hard to > pronounce for most others... :-) ) Done on purpose of course :-) > I won

[cctalk] Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-04-25 Thread William Sudbrink via cctalk
Based on what I have read, along with a few discussions I have had with people involved in the early S-100 "scene" around now is the 50th birthday (or conception day) of the Altair 8800. Certainly, next year could properly be called its 50th birthday. Anyway, I'm thinking about "painting the show

[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Looking at the webpage for the CDC version, I noticed the comment about SB0 B0 vs. NO and the "lore" about the divide unit. That issue is reported in Thornton's book. It wouldn't surprise me if it were a real issue on the "preproduction serial number 3" system where that code was first created

[cctalk] Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

2024-04-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows - perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl) and he has a blog. This time, he explores the idea that internet "bub" delivered on its promises, rather than su