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echo: fidonews
to: Bjrn Felten
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2019-07-21 21:45:00
subject: An unsung heroine.

Hello Bj”rn,

On Sunday July 21 2019 21:27, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 WD>> Stuffing routines in 4KB or 8KB memory was not unique nor
 WD>> state-of-the-art but daily business then. Been there, done that,
 WD>> got the t-shirt.

 BF>    By then? I seriously doubt both your statements.

I learned it in 1975 on a Intertechnique Multi 8. A French minicomputer with 8K 
ring core memory. It was given into my care in Tijgerberg Hospita, Cape Town. I 
was the lucky one because I was the only one that could read the manuals writen 
in French. I taught myself to program in assembler on that machine.

"State of the Art daily bussines by then"?  No way Jos‚! ;-)

 BF>    I made it a decade later with my Motorola 6800 based embedded
 BF> system (not a computer!).

Same here. I later converted that "embedded system" into a real computer. Flex 
OS and 5 inch floppy drives. Later 6809 with 16 MB hard dive. Those were the 
days... ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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