MasPar, anyone?

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Wed Sep 11 02:40:01 2002

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Roger Ivie wrote:

> I designed the interface between the 3520 and the MasPar which, AFAIK,
> was the only 3rd party interface done for the 3520's proprietary MBUS.

That's cool. I always like hearing about the classic stuff you guys were
involved with designing. I guess it's my secret disappointment that I
never made it into the compsci department at university and consequently
dropped out to become a unix sysadmin. (:

> After a while it was "Wow! Scope loops you can see on a scope!" (they
> were using a high-level interpreted thingy called hdb for hardware
> debugging; their scope loops were too slow to see on a scope) By the
> time I left, it was "show us how you did that." Sometimes being an old
> fart pays off.

I've never heard of a scope loop. What is it?

ok
r.
Received on Wed Sep 11 2002 - 02:40:01 BST