2023-05-28
This week I finally got back to MSDebug, my fork of the debugger included in the 2018 free software release of MS-DOS version 2. I also worked some on lDebug, my debugger based on FreeDOS Debug/X.
Yesterday I was greeted with a "write protect error" on drive A: of the HP 95LX, the SRAM card.
2023-05-21
In mid May, I worked some on the debugger and picked and adapted several changes to all the TSRs, and increased the TSRs' private versions to 1.20. All documentation text files (.txt) in https://pushbx.org/ecm/doc/ were adjusted to use CR LF line endings (unix2dos).
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1"
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