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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 2 Oct 2024 22:03:36 GMT
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 17:52:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> All the project needed was to draw up a basics state machine to decide
> what actions to take against the limited number of inputs, and pretty
> much have a main loop polling all the inputs, and twiddling the output
> bits.  No real time OS, no preemptive multitasking nothing complex. Just
> a state machine that said 'if  the inputs are like this, do that' for
> around 128 cases.

I started my career in hardware, not software, although it was an 
implementation of logic with relays, limit switches, push buttons, timers, 
and so forth controlling solenoids. The conditions to get from state A to 
B were well defined.