1 May
2020
1 May
'20
6:45 p.m.
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:14:11PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Yeah. I only used PDP-8 computers before floppies had been invented.
You didn't have to remember the RIM loader for the PDP-8/I, it was silk-screened onto the console.
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You didn't often need to use it since its only purpose was to load the BIN loader, and that usually persisted (core memory FTW!).
I wonder if the developers had competitions on who could write the shortest working loader program. -- Len Sorensen