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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.albasani.net!news.babsi.de!open-news-network.org!news.m-online.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erik Baigar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Low-level programming in Ada? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:55:15 +0200 Organization: (posted via) M-net Telekommunikations GmbH Message-ID: <520BC483.20828313@baigar.de> References: <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <981741794397689133.903473yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-46-244-133-137.dynamic.mnet-online.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.m-online.net 1376502881 26199 46.244.133.137 (14 Aug 2013 17:54:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.m-online.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:54:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX64 6.5 IP28) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:16855 Date: 2013-08-14T19:55:15+02:00 List-Id: Mike H wrote: > > > Those were the days! A classic piece of kit. Thanks for the memory. > > The Elliott 803 was of the same era (or was it slightly earlier?). A > 39-bit word and B-Line instruction modification - they don't make 'em > like that any more ;-) I cut my programming teeth on one of those and > have memories of being knee-deep in 5-channel punched paper tape ;-( Hey very nice that someone mentions the Elliott machines here. The awareness of this architecture is near to zero. 2003 I got hands on a small mil spec computer which I reverse engineered and reanimated. Only years later I learned, that it is an embedded 102 (essentially 12 bit variant of the 900 series machines which have been the successor of the 803). I also ported an emulator for the 920 which was written by two good old hands in Ada many years ago to more modern platforms - if interested you may have a look to my page regarding the project: http://www.programmer-electronic-control.de Erik.