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woodchips · 21st Nov 2018, 6:05 pm

I not long ago re-read the Soul of a New Machine, and was not at all impressed. I first read it in the early 80's, and not since. But the concept of designing the CPU rather than throwing it together and then de-bugging obviously didn't occur to them. I thought the design team were incredibly amateurish.

As for the 1's complement, I worked for CTL for a short time and the computer, considering it was designed by Ian Barron (?, of Transputer fame) was naff. Compared with the PDP11 it was stone age, why?

21st Nov 2018, 6:05 pm	#7
woodchips Octode Join Date: May 2010 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. Posts: 1,176	Re: Apollo Guidance Computer I not long ago re-read the Soul of a New Machine, and was not at all impressed. I first read it in the early 80's, and not since. But the concept of designing the CPU rather than throwing it together and then de-bugging obviously didn't occur to them. I thought the design team were incredibly amateurish. As for the 1's complement, I worked for CTL for a short time and the computer, considering it was designed by Ian Barron (?, of Transputer fame) was naff. Compared with the PDP11 it was stone age, why?