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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks much. Yes I know you were speaking of
assembly. I was just considering history. I've always heard binary was first.
What that might mean IDK. And there was no evidence presented for
that.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=paulkoning@comcast.net href="mailto:paulkoning@comcast.net">Paul
Koning</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=simh@trailing-edge.com
href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">SIMH</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 27, 2016 2:46
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham <<A
href="mailto:billcun@suddenlink.net">billcun@suddenlink.net</A>>
wrote:<BR>> <BR>> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in
the 1950s and it was some early calculators that killed slide rules. What kind
of "processor" were they using? I'm not so sure there was real HLL before Adm.
Hopper. And no binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything from the
'40s?<BR><BR>HLL? I was talking about assembler... Anyway, I don't
believe COBOL was the first HLL, though it certainly was fairly
early.<BR><BR>You can find writeups about Harvard Mark 4 in Bitsavers, and
presumably other old stuff as well. My own comment was referring to
documents about early Dutch computer work I've been looking at. For
example this one: <A
href="http://oai.cwi.nl/oai/asset/9603/9603A.pdf">http://oai.cwi.nl/oai/asset/9603/9603A.pdf</A>,
"Principles of electronic computers: course February 1948". It mentions
that, at time of writing, the only functioning electronic computer was
ENIAC. (That may not be entirely accurate, considering possible
classified machines, but it's certainly close.) It describes the key
components of a computer, and gives an outline of what an instruction set
might look like. No suggestion that the instruction set in question
corresponds to any actual design, though.<BR><BR>Unfortunately it's in
Dutch.<BR><BR>paul<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Simh
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