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From: davidc@vlsisj.VLSI.COM (David Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOD applied to interpreters and compilers
Message-ID: <15367@vlsisj.VLSI.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 04:50:06 GMT
References: <5226@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <8721@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidc@vlsisj.UUCP (David Chapman)
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In article <8721@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
<From article <5226@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, by nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock):
<...
<> Yeah, I once did something similar, but in Vax microcode.  The hard part was
<> typing it in hex...
<
<Typing it? TYPING IT? You kids got it too easy today. When I was your
<age, we used to enter the operating system into core each morning using
<the toggle switches on the front panel.

You had an operating system?  Oh how I wished I could have one when I was
younger...

And just be glad you had core instead of mercury delay lines!
-- 
		David Chapman

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