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echo: rberrypi
to: ARELIGIOUS REPUBLICAN
from: TAUNO VOIPIO
date: 2019-11-09 18:48:00
subject: Re: The time to install m

On 9.11.19 18:03, Areligious Republican wrote:
> ... will be when I have detailed info on the Videocore processor
> such that I can program it from power up.
>
> Until then, they'll just be gathering dust.
>
> Perhaps in 30 years' time they might be worth something  :-)
>
>
> Joking apart, has the detailed programming info of the Videocore
> been published somewhere of which I'm not aware?
>
> It's just that having cut my teeth on PDP11***** assembler programming
> on the bare machine back in 1971, I'm very much NIH when it
> comes to others' programs.
>
> ***** Yes, I;m well aware that we are discussing a product whose
> complexity is many times the multiple of the PDP11 but believe me,
> it's well withing my subsequent experience, interest and capability.
>
> 


You should first try to learn the ARM main processor. There
is some learning curve from the PDP.

To make yourself at home, try: .

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-TV

I started with an IBM 1620, and had some PDP's, DG Novas and
VAXen under way ...

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