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prim02017-11-13 06:31:22
Debugging
prim0, 2017-11-13 06:31:22

IBM 5100 special debugging?

There was a person who wrote that he was allegedly from the future, and he needed an IBM 5100 that could debug the program code of old UNIX-based systems, before the spread of APL and Basic languages.
Question: What is in this debugging, what can it give special?

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Stalker_RED, 2017-11-13
@prim0

Both BASIC and APL were launched on the IBM 5100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100#Programming...
Now you can run ancient software in a virtual machine, and at least debug it by clock cycles.
Was he from the future? How did you check? What's next after Apple stock and bitcoin?

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Alexey Cheremisin, 2017-11-13
@leahch

A good man, don't offend such people, he certainly knows Napoleon and plays chess with Darth Vader.

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