[GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

James Knott james.knott at jknott.net
Fri May 1 16:29:05 EDT 2020


On 2020-05-01 03:59 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
>> I wonder if the developers had competitions on who could write the
>> shortest working loader program.
> No fair modifying hardware to create the new instructions you needed.
> That was a thing, back when it was still possible to get tools between
> parts of your CPU.

Both the Data General Eclipse and DEC VAX 11/780 supported microcode, 
where you could write your own instructions.  I occasionally had to 
track down microcode bugs on the Eclipse.



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