Re: Ada 2012 emulator of the EE KDF9

[robin.vowels@gmail.com]

On Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 7:36:43 AM UTC+10, Bill Findlay wrote:
> The English Electric KDF9 was a groundbreaking product
> of the UK computer industry in the early 1960s.

The design was based on the Australian Charles Hamblin's
programming language "GEORGE" of 1957, which used a push-down pop-up accumulator.

> It is once again possible to learn about KDF9 "hands on" by
> running some original KDF9 software, including the well-known
> Whetstone Benchmark, using ee9, the GNU Ada KDF9 emulator.
> 
> Download packages of the latest version, V3.1a,
> for macOS, 64-bit Linux, and Windows, can be found at:
> 
> <http://www.findlayw.plus.com/KDF9/emulation/?C=M;O=D>
> 
> ee9 is written in Ada 2012. There are 15 additional lines of code
> in the Windows version, mostly to deal with the pre-W10 lack of
> ANSI terminal features. Four constants have Windows-specific values.
> Apart from that, the source is identical for all supported OSes.
> 
> Older versions are available for the Raspberry Pi and for ancient Macs.
> 
> The present version should compile and run successfully using GNAT,
> under the Stretch version of Raspbian, but I don't own a Raspberry Pi,
> so I cannot verify this myself. Please let me know if you attempt it,
> whether successfully or not.
> 
> For more detail, without downloading everything, see the Users' Guide:
> 
> <http://www.findlayw.plus.com/KDF9/Users%20Guide%20for%20ee9.pdf>
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Findlay