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From: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, eugene@soe.ucsc.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A New History of Modern Computing - my thoughts
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:41:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5394A5C7-9CE7-4F26-AB98-BFE35C13C629@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2111281635020.2433@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>

The ++ operator appears to have been.  The PDP-11 had addressing modes to so predecrement and postincrement.  

> On Nov 28, 2021, at 16:41, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> 
>> I heard that the null terminated string was a 11-build-in.
> 
> It's a fairly good fit for 6502, too.  When I write 6502 code, all my messages are stored as C strings.  Because on an Apple, something like this...
> 
> putch      =        $FDED
> 
> entry:    ldy       #$00
> @1:       lda       msg, y
>          beq       @2
>          eor       #$80
>          jsr       putch
>          iny
>          bne       @1
> @2:       rts
> 
> msg:      .byte     "Hello, cruel world.", 13, 0
> 
> ...is pretty easy to do.
> 
> -uso.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-28 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-28 20:26 Jon Steinhart
2021-11-28 21:07 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-28 21:15   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-28 21:31     ` Ken Thompson
2021-11-28 21:47       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-28 22:17         ` Rob Pike
2021-11-29  0:19           ` Clem Cole
2021-11-29  1:12             ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29  2:23               ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-30 19:27                 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-12-01  8:46                   ` Rich Morin
2021-12-01 12:28                     ` Al Kossow
2021-11-30  3:18               ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29  1:18             ` George Michaelson
2021-11-29  1:36             ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-29  1:47       ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-29  7:46         ` arnold
2021-11-29  7:52           ` arnold
2021-11-29 14:44             ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29 12:11         ` Michael Kjörling
2021-11-28 21:23   ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-11-28 21:39     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-11-28 22:41       ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2021-11-28 21:40   ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29 15:37 ` Phil Budne
2021-11-28 23:12 Noel Chiappa
2021-11-28 23:35 ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-29  1:53   ` John Cowan
2021-11-29 13:48   ` Dan Halbert

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