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 X-Received: by 10.180.90.132 with SMTP id bw4mr1391831wib.7.1376504173009; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!el7no23488081wib.1!news-out.google.com!cc8ni30564wib.1!nntp.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Low-level programming in Ada? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:16:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <981741794397689133.903473yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.net> <520BC483.20828313@baigar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net DV+hh1uHC7/jo37Nb/J5hQJeq0xyv7nz0RwRb3Ks1DVTPw+A4K Cancel-Lock: sha1:MHjL5KNR8P/w1HIFXyDrmowXdFU= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: Low-level programming in Ada? Thread-Index: Ac6ZGltIjmQuzjLnh0mJoI6+w8bymQ== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-Bytes: 2077 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183016 Date: 2013-08-14T19:16:12+01:00 List-Id: On 14/08/2013 18:55, in article 520BC483.20828313@baigar.de, "Erik Baigar" wrote: ... > 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 Hi Erik, Do you know about Andrew Herbert's very complete 903 emulator in F#? -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;