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I don't get what you mean? Is R the same as P with some extra bits in its graphical representation? 

Actually, I can't remember ever using either µ or €, so I agree with Thatgui. I left € out since, well, I *don't* have € as my currency, so... :)

...but I would agree that the lack of a ' (that is, apostrophe) is a big problem. ' and ` in all fairness, but those are accents, and I'll need ' both for writing english (I'll ne'er manage without, guv'nor!) and for code. People reading my english might be none the wiser if I use ' instead of...

As has been said before: You're wrong, here. Those of us that use å, ä and ö in our languages have them not as accented letters, but as standalone letters in and of themselves. Which means that ä is about as common as p or b, and stuff like y, j, z or q is far less common than any of the åäö...

Brilliant. Thanks for the update, and even more: Thanks for the progress :D

  If you come from 1.51, then the short answer to that is: Yes. :D

Yep. In this day and age, you need to compete with ergonomics and usability, because even your car keys can emulate those systems if you just hack a display into them. That, or you'd have to up the ante to PS2, DC, N64, and so on.

Yes, that is true. But that run on an IBM 704. Which was a rather more capable (and rather more expensive) machine than the Royal McBees :) And note that it has subroutines, but not functions - No parameter passing, and no local variable environment.  Algol did have the problem that even...

Remember that a compiler at the time didn't take a source code file in any readable form. A run of a FORTRAN program would entail that the programmer wrote his program by hand, on paper (which Mel did, too). Then, he'd get to a punching station and punch the program into a set of punch cards...

Oh, no, it most certainly is millions of miles from, for instance, the 6502 instruction set! :) For memory, certainly, but the big difference comes in the data manipulation area. Adressing modes - Direct, indirect, indexed, and explicit data given (on the LPG, there is no way to add 1 to the...

Actually, the input bit is interesting as well. The physical machine was like a big desk with a typewriter (a proper cast-iron 50s-style typewriter, no fancy terminal stuff here), but there really was no interfacing at all. The keyboard was connected exactly like (and in parallell to) the tape...

Sorry, I got the Fetch-with-mask-thing wrong. I started wondering how it could deal with two adresses, and of course it couldn't. First you fetch the complete data word from an adress to the accumulator. Then the "Extract" operator does a bitwise AND between the word at its adress (the mask...

I think people in general underestimate the difficulty of working with these old machines. We're still talking about computers from the era when they hadn't quite figure out how to make computers. I did a quick readup about the LGP-30 and noticed, amongst other things, that it has an instruction...

Has been said before, needs to be said again: This is not meant as an instruction of program development. It is a hairy dog story.  Second thing needs to be said: When you have a list like that, where you have stuff in the format "Real men uses...", it is usually not meant as advice or role...

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Eh, it was more than 20 years ago :) But if I remember correctly, an X-windows compliant program should look to the environment variable DISPLAY to determine what display to open its windows on. DISPLAY defaults to localhost:0, but if you set it to something else, like 192.168.0.1:0, then it...

Hah. I remember when something like xpra was the normal way of running heavy graphical applications. Telnet to a cpu-heavy machine, export the DISPLAY, and run :D

But it was a very vicious shelf! Had previously attacked and killed a vase, two goldfish and a full set of Knuths "Art of Computer Programming"! Actually, Burt Bacharach even wrote a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUnznxa29g Hm. Perhaps I ought to go have lunch now? That...

Me too. Which, I guess, points to there being rather big variations in the durability of the Pandoras. Or, possibly, that I'm such a gentle flower that my idea of "tossing around and generally abusing" is too nice :D

But who wants "legal" when you can have "fun"? :D