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System360 Hardwired vs. Microcoded 387
Peter Flbutt 44PS was the "native" operating system. There was some extra-cost hardware and software that provided a slow emulator for the missing instructions (plus hardware implementations of a few of them), and...

System360 Hardwired vs. Microcoded 388
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:50:59 +0000 (UTC), Joe Morris The 2314 had almost an identical...

Nah, these were new-hires getting broken in. Back in those days, these are guys who would have come from an IBM background and had the mistaken notion that, since they were "programmers" and we were mere data entry types, they knew better. heh.

Once upon a time, the lawyers were trying to figure out how to spell DECsystem-10. It went from DECSYSTEM-10 to DECsystem-10 and back again. By the third or fourth edit, I stomped my foot down and told the writer to tell the f***ing lawyers to make up their mind. I would do the edit one, and only one, more time. If I got the job a second time, I'd change the f***ing name to DECpoo-10. They got the message. I owned those bits.

For a long time, I never knew which was the correct spelling either. All I knew were the rules of spelling we had in the shop. One advantage of having all docs go through one group is that all of DEC's documentation looked the same and was consistent over all product lines. That way a poor programmer could pick up any notebook of any PDP and be able to find the info he needed to do his work.

That's another piece of knowledge organization that has been completely lost when DEC turned breasts up.

BAH

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		That OctalDecimal Table 386 System360 Hardwired vs. Microcoded 387 Peter Flbutt 44PS was the "native" operating system. There was some extra-cost hardware and software that provided a slow emulator for the missing instructions (plus hardware implementations of a few of them), and... System360 Hardwired vs. Microcoded 388 On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:50:59 +0000 (UTC), Joe Morris The 2314 had almost an identical... Nah, these were new-hires getting broken in. Back in those days, these are guys who would have come from an IBM background and had the mistaken notion that, since they were "programmers" and we were mere data entry types, they knew better. heh. Once upon a time, the lawyers were trying to figure out how to spell DECsystem-10. It went from DECSYSTEM-10 to DECsystem-10 and back again. By the third or fourth edit, I stomped my foot down and told the writer to tell the f*ing lawyers to make up their mind. I would do the edit one, and only one, more time. If I got the job a second time, I'd change the f*ing name to DECpoo-10. They got the message. I owned those bits. For a long time, I never knew which was the correct spelling either. All I knew were the rules of spelling we had in the shop. One advantage of having all docs go through one group is that all of DEC's documentation looked the same and was consistent over all product lines. That way a poor programmer could pick up any notebook of any PDP and be able to find the info he needed to do his work. That's another piece of knowledge organization that has been completely lost when DEC turned breasts up. BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail. List \| Previous \| Next



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