<< and the MIT Instrumentation Labs' antibodies...

<< and the MIT Instrumentation Labs' antibodies flooded in to destroy the invader with critiques and reports negative of the IBM report. >>

lol programmers then just like today

Like 28 May 2018 at 23:30 | Open on mastodon.social

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Nate Cull

Ah! The LVDC had no ROM at all! Good lord. The entire program sat in RAM. Aaaaaaaaaaaa

28 May 2018 at 23:34 | Open on mastodon.social

Nate Cull

<< A so-called "bugger word" has been stuck at the end of each bank—no comments on this terminology, please, since I didn't invent it; when I asked Don Eyles some question that involved them, he somewhat-laconically stated "we called them check sums">>

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html

28 May 2018 at 23:42 | Open on mastodon.social

Nate Cull

Huh, and if you have ROM and RAM I guess it literally is a Harvard Architecture

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/BlockIII.html

I never thought of that before!

29 May 2018 at 0:00 | Open on mastodon.social

Mans R

@natecull Not necessarily, or even typically. It is quite common to have both code and read-only data in ROM while using RAM for read/write data. RAM can also be used to hold code loaded from some type of storage that doesn't permit direct execution.

31 Oct 2022 at 15:23 | Open on society.oftrolls.com

nilrog

@natecull I’m going to use “bugger word” instead of checksum from now on 😁

5 Jan 2023 at 8:25 | Open on mastodon.nu

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