Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11,comp.sys.dec,vmsnet.pdp-11 Subject: Re: Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <9425gcFhnpU1@mid.individual.net> <4dde5d3f.2187617@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1306435854 21719 166.84.1.5 (26 May 2011 18:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.dec:511 In vmsnet.pdp-11 paramucho wrote, quoting Fritz Wuehler : > It's often the libraries that are the killers. Yes, that's for sure. > > But you can do anything if you have enough time, money, and > > good people. Oh yeah, and demand. Or somebody just crazy enough > > to do it. > > Well, there's no demand, so I guess it must be the latter that > explains why I spend on average two months a year rewriting and > extending my versions of DEC O/S's. I find the exercise relaxing--it's > like fixing up and polishing an old car to make it roadworthy again. I started work on Kermit because I needed it, but in the end it became making an old car roadworthy again. Polishing in my case included trying to provide a good example of how I think PDP-11 assembly language should be used, as at the time it was still being taught to college students starting to study programming. That was definitely more fun than most of what I do now. Heh. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number