re: #164 freetoken

Well, since you asked…

Speaking of DEC, I remember way back when we got our first terminal, that is, a paper terminal. (I’ll assume you know what “paper” is like - if not you can visit your local museum.) It integrated a typewriter-like keyboard with a paper printer (using ribbons of inked cloth, like typewriters used to use). These terminals were connected to what was then called a “minicomputer” - it wasn’t as big as the computers used by the IRS and the like. “PDP” was the model name, from the aforementioned DEC.

Neat stuff back then, to watch the terminal type away.

You kids these days missed out on all the fun stuff.

PDP-11 was fun. BSD started there.
VAX was even more fun. VMS remains an awesome OS.
PDP-10 though? That was sheer cool in a box. 36 bit words & some wild research being done on them. DEC in those days was like Apple, IBM & Microsoft’s best features rolled into one. The proverbial “one brief shining moment”.

LispM’s though were the best of them all. I hope Brad Parker finally gets his CADR on a FPGA running. I’ll put one in a laptop shell and scare the mundanes with a laptop running LISP ;)