Day of week routine

[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

>I have heard that a lot of bank ATMs are controlled by PDP-8s. Can
>anyone with better knowledge than be confirm/deny this rumor? (Or are
>they all on IBM mainframes connected to private SNA networks? :-)

I have no knowledge, but one comforting thought: a lot of PDP-8
software used triple precision (36bits)! I know mine did.

And, since the biggest number added at one time was 4096, the
DMA hardware and a few gates took care of all the overflow automatically!


Doug McDonald