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If the PiDP11 follows Oscar's PiDP8 then the blinkenlights are pulse-width-modulated and you do get a warm glow out of them rather than a heartless and cold on/off. My recollection…

Bah -- try again so it is readable !! %% Simple statements -- root is an announcement word whose subject and object tell the story. %% 'IBM announced a new computer today' announce…

Nice work by the O.P. Amusingly a year or so ago I took the Stanford Dependency parser and fed its output tree into a Prolog system to try to pull out the semantics. It was used to…

Just got my copy from Amazon. Cannot recommend Penrose highly enough ... a truly brilliant mathematical physicist who is not afraid to call out Emperor's new clothes as it were (wh…

Well, Simula predates PARC by about a decade, so I'm not so sure about AK created OOP. As for Windows and such, sniff around YouTube -- that notion goes back to the late 50's early…

Man, what a weird question. I'm 61; been programming since 1968 (Ferranti Atlas -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_%28computer%29 -- the first machine with a whole bunch of stu…