Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Tim wrote:
with some monumental snippage George Yanos sent:
If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you
can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.
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I still say you're not a real programmer unless you've entered data into
RAM using DIP switches to load the binary. None of this using a
programmer to do it for you business...
I can remember toggling in the papertape loader so that I could load
the system monitor, stopping the loader at the end of the tape. The
toggle in the start address of the monitor, and start running it. It
sure saved a lot of work when the system monitor was finely burned
to an EPROM, and you could just start it. But I can not picture
using DIP switches to load anything - they are too hard to change
and would not take all that many changes. (Unless I am not
understanding what you mean by DIP switches - the ones I have seen
fit an IC socket.)
Mikkel
I believe he was referring to the bank of switches on the front panel of
his computer by which you could set the memory locations, thereby
entering the boot program.
Boy what a pain that was.
~~R
