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From: kjm@ut-emx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Re: CDC nostalgia
Keywords: CDC, nostalgia, 6600
Message-ID: <27190@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 90 00:19:58 GMT
References: <19272@shamash.cdc.com>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <19272@shamash.cdc.com>, rrr@hare.udev.cdc.com (richard r ragan 234-4
340) writes:
> 
> Some of the PP code was still in octal and some had
> already been disassembled (by someone named Bass as I
> recall). The other interesting thing was the
> existence of 007. Not James Bond but a PP program named 007 
> that simulated the execution of the CPU as a diagnostic
> aid. On the console you would see S=0xxxxx instead of P=0xxxx
> for the P register.

We also (at UT Austin) had a 007, but it provided a stable, high-resolution
clock for system performance tracing.

--
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anyone else, including my wife, our cats, and my employer.

Kenneth J. Montgomery               Senior Operating System Specialist
kjm@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu          University of Texas System
                                    Center for High-Performance Computing