On 12/22/22 17:08, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Grew up in the 80's, so the microcontroller/microcomputer era. I have use the 6802 & 6809 Applied Micro Systems hardware emulators and love them. I have a Z80B Applied Micro Systems emulator with my Z80 Starter Kit board. Those were much simpler times. Now we have plenty of tools to debug. I think we're doing much better than the front panel. ;-)
We are, but "Heisenbugs" can be very nasty, and front panels don't lie. Whenever we get hard-core (but young) programmers in at LSSM, I always show them how a front panel works, usually on the PDP-11/70. Invariably their reaction is incredulous, saying something akin to "OMG if we only had those on modern machines!" And I have to agree! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA