While searching for some information about
Duff’s device, I ran aground on The Apocrypha, a collection of interesting code including Duff’s device and emulating a Turing machine with vi. Nifty!
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Back from the dead…
Slashdot | Bringing Back the PDP8 relates the efforts of Andrew Grillet and his attempt to make a PDP8 clone using FPGA chips.
I’m virtually certain that this is a hideous waste of time, but it is kind of a cool project, and given that I spent a couple of weeks writing a PDP-1 emulator so I could play SpaceWar!, I don’t hink I’m really one to talk. He’s using a Xilinx Spartan II FPGA for implementation. Pretty neat, but I can’t help think that a PIC or Atmel microcontroller would be a better choice these days.
P.S. Postscript is handy…
Most people probably just think of Postscript as being that stuff that lives in your printer. I am probably one of the one in a million people who actually will type in Postscript programs by hand. I actually used Postscript to generate logos and stuff for this website.
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