feasibility of a web forum in Python

[Larz60+]

worked with BAL, and all of the popular micros of the day: 6502, 6400, 8080, pdp8 and 11, then big boys 68000, etc. but not the intel 8086, i hated the architecture.
The stuff that Dave Patterson is talking about is new hardware, being developed at lawrence livermore national laboratory.
and other locations.

[Skaperen]

i hate the 8086 architecture, too. i'm not fond of 8080, either. never did any 4-bit. i learned 6809 but never got a chance to use it. did some pdp8 and pdp11. not a lot of 68000 though i wish it had been more. but i did work on Sparc before i bought myself a couple of those. and i got to do some DECsystem-20 with TOPS-20 for some 36-bit experience. i also did some IBM 1130 mini, but mostly looking at how bad the Fortran compiler was.

i did create a set of macros for ASM/360 that implemented structured programming and used those a lot. they sped up coding quite a bit.

i also implemented virtual read-only mode for attached tape drives in the CP kernel layer of VM/370. that allowed an automated tape request system to attach in read-only mode when the tape volume was flagged read-only in the database or the user requested read-only, and avoided depending on operators to pull the rings.

[Larz60+]

8080 was 8 bit. I built plasma spectrometers with 8080, with only 2MHz clock rate could run all processes for 30 different photomultiplier tubes. That also included least-squares regression curve fitting for all spectral lines, all in assembly without multiply instruction.

[Skaperen]

did you have an arithmetic library or make one? i made my own for the 6502.

[Larz60+]

No library, all home brew.
this was my reference manual: https://archive.org/details/8080a8085Ass...rogramming