Core Memory
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:07:34 -0500, flipper wrote:
0 (*octal* 0) was no-op on the PDP-8, and there was a short program
that filled all of core with 0, leaving it circulating around the 4K
memory forever.
How did the little program manage to write 0 on top of itself?
Beats me. I haven't programmed a PDP8 in about 40 years. It really was
kind of a dog.
John
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