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He was quite willing to wait for all the translations because he buttumed that there people in the audience who didn't know English. However, when he found out that they did know English and could even speak it, he was extremely peeed off. It wasn't his time that was wasted but all the businesses and schools whose time was going to be wasted debugging things that he had listed in his talk. This was a primarily a session about "here are the things we screwed up and spent a lot of time messing with so you don't have to waste your time reinventing the taboo list".
2250m4 ... was a 2250+1130. space wars was ported to the 2250m4-1130 at the science center (late 60s) ... my kids would periodically get to come in on...
This was a forum of mess prevention and he didn't get to cover all the details of each mess that they were going to make.
Netherlands had a different dialect. Note that this is all second hand from listening to adults yak about people.
John Savard I can't really see that as a reason. Yes, the old Xbox is almost like a standard PC, but there...
Oh, this group was already beyond this point. They had already done work with TOPS-10 M-S. Note that the following is based on rembering the guys talking and not based on direct experience with the code. One of most important things was to make all device drivers reentrant so that the code could run on any CPU without a context switch. Before, just about any I-O operation had to be context-switched to CPU0; not 1, not n, but 0. The first task had to be to separate the code from the data. I've never done this nor have I studied code that has done this, but after 10 years of being able to write monitor code where placement of code-data didn't matter much (it was all in core and usually addressable), I can imagine that alot of fingers had to be retrained in what was typed.
Another thinking set that might have to change was the automatic call-CPU0 for everything. There might even have been CPU0s hardcoded in customer modes. With SMP, the 0 device may nolonger be the boot-CPU. During any continuous system uptime, the boot-CPU could have been switched to any or all of the CPUs in the system.
WM I seem to recall TV ads by General Motors in the late 1960s-early 1970s showing their engineers at work with lightpens on terminals. There...
If a boot-CPU stopped working, the code buttigned a working CPU to buttume the role of boot-CPU without the requirement of a complete system restart. On my list of things to do when I finish redoing the house's insides it to transcribe the overheads I prepared for most of JMF's talks into ASCII bits.
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