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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.
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#12
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.
Tradition is peer pressure from dead people

What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
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#13
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.
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#14
did you have an arithmetic library or make one? i made my own for the 6502.
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#15
No library, all home brew.
this was my reference manual: https://archive.org/details/8080a8085Ass...rogramming
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