From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:8864:: with SMTP id k97-v6mr643667iod.129.1533811913849; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 03:51:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:c744:: with SMTP id x65-v6mr65117oif.2.1533811913672; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 03:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!g13-v6no2746091itf.0!news-out.google.com!k71-v6ni3574itk.0!nntp.google.com!g24-v6no2842057iti.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 03:51:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0001HW.211B99EA08EFCCD07000008902CF@news.individual.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.67.103.232; posting-account=S_MdrwoAAAD7T2pxG2e393dk6y0tc0Le NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.67.103.232 References: <0001HW.211B99EA08EFCCD07000008902CF@news.individual.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4fe38e51-b360-4141-9395-906ac6217458@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada 2012 emulator of the EE KDF9 From: robin.vowels@gmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:51:53 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54100 Date: 2018-08-09T03:51:53-07:00 List-Id: 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: > > > > 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: > > > > Enjoy. > > -- > Bill Findlay