| PiDP-10 (Radio Today Guides) |
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Subtitled "A mainframe in my living room", this book is about the PiDP-10 kit and the three operating systems that you can run on it. Andrew Barron acknowledges that very few people have the room, the money, or the time to restore a full-size PDP-10 as they were large installations that required a big climate-controlled room. However, he points out that due to the work by Bob Supnik, the original developer of the SimH emulator, enthusiasts can download an emulator onto a Raspberry Pi and run an accurate simulation of the DEC PDP-10 system. <ASIN:B0FNJC5PQ7> Readers can then learn what it was like to operate a terminal, control the computer, write programs in computer languages such as LISP, FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, or BASIC, and, of course, play some of the computer games that became the classics, which spawned the games we play today. Author: Andrew Barron
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