PDP-8 Handbooks

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Feb 24 16:10:10 1999

>Our library has volume 1 of a two-volume _Introduction to Programming_
>set. I've always wondered what was in the other volume. (It covers
>details of the languages supported on the PDP-8.) But I've never seen
>the two-volume set anywhere else, just a one-volume book.

The second volume was the _programming languages_ handbook.

>And while I'm at it... We have the OS/8 handbook as well. I've never
>been clear on what the different versions of OS/8 are, so I don't know
>how early or late our handbook is.

I'm afraid I can't speak to that... when I first used a pdp-8, it was
with 4k and an ASR33 -- it took too long to load editor, then assembler,
then linker by low speed paper tape, so we learned really quickly
how to hand-code and toggle the programs in through the front panel.

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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