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The Hacker Way

February 1, 2012

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A couple of days ago, I posted a couple of paragraphs from the O’Reilley book I am reading – Machine Learning for Email on my Facebook page. What is a hacker? Far from the stylized depictions of nefarious teenagers or Gibsonian cyber-punks portrayed in pop culture, we believe a hacker is someone who likes to solve… [Read more…]

Beautiful Code: PDP-11 Bootstrap Loaders

March 18, 2011

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PC Paper Tape or Teletype The paper tape bootstrap is a two stage process. First the bootstrap loader must be toggled in at the appropriate location (set table for xx). A special bootstrap tape (Absolute Loader) must be in the reader with the leader (punch 351) in the read frame. The program is then started… [Read more…]

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