Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I never used a pin board, but as a junior engineer I helped
> create the wire lists to take input (an open/closed contact) from
> 1000+ points in power plants and associated distribution system
> for presentation in a control room on a Visual Annunciator.
>
> How the lamps lit was dependent on contact state, contact change
> of state and current state of a large number of other contacts.
> The lamps could be on, off, or flashing at a specified rate.
Sounds like one of those projects you'd find in the back of any number
of various "hobby" publications for "make an authentic $thing for
$purpose in your hobby". It's always amazing to hear and see how people
created the logic circuits with discrete components, rather than
microprocessors.
>
> I think that fits any reasonable definition of programming. The
> overall system had an equivalent of macros -- implemented by
> small cards with TTL chips whose fine detail of operation could
> be programmed by selecting which jumpers were installed.
>
>
Indeed it does.
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