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echo: rberrypi
to: BILL FINDLAY
from: PETER PERCIVAL
date: 2018-08-10 19:12:00
subject: Re: ee9 V3.1a

Bill Findlay wrote:
>
> Like the Raspberry Pi, but half a century earlier,
> the English Electric KDF9

I recall using one as a front end to an ICL 1904 (or 1906?) when I did
my degree.

> was a groundbreaking
> product of the UK computer industry.
>
> It is once again possible to learn about KDF9 "hands on"
> by running some famous KDF9 software such as the original
> Whetstone Benchmark, using ee9, my KDF9 emulator.
>
> Download packages of the latest version, V3.1a,
> for macOS, 64-bit Linux, and Windows, can be found at:
>
> 
>
> An older version is available there for the Raspberry Pi.
>
> The present version should compile and run successfully using GNAT,
> the GNU Ada 2102 compiler, under the Stretch version of Raspbian,
> but I do not own an RPi, so cannot verify this myself.
> Please let me know if you try, whether successfully or not.
>
> For more detail, without downloading everything, see the Users' Guide:
>
> 
>
> Enjoy.
>

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