Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really neat thing about the machine was that hackers were allowed, even encouraged, to make HARDWARE changes (e.g., wire-wrapping new instruction codes into the thing). Lots of fun.That sure plays hell on binary compatibility...
Hmmm... isn't compatability why we have compilers? :-)Call me old fashioned, but I prefer true high level languages. If you want serious compatability, use Common Lisp :-)
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