Peter Percival wrote:
> 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?

1906A, apparently.

> ) 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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