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A 370? You lucky, lucky b'stard! I still had to deal with a 360/195 in the eighties...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Only about nine 360/195s were sold so where was this? BAL (Basic Assembly Language) did not change between the 360 and the 370 so you can go back to an old 360/20 and learn to program within 4K of memory! PS. Yes, that was no typo. People did program with those kinds of constraints and successfully too. By the way, 1 MB of main memory in the late 1970s occupied a box that was approximately 6'x3'x6' and cost $100,000.
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Prof C A R Hoare (a major figure in Computer Science but C freaks and Unix eunuchs who swear by K&R would not have heard his name) once said, "Algol 60 is an improvement over all of its successors."
He invented Quick Sort! Everybody should have heard of him - you've used his algorithm more times than you've eaten hot dinners...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Only about nine 360/195s were sold so where was this? BAL (Basic Assembly Language) did not change between the 360 and the 370 so you can go back to an old 360/20 and learn to program within 4K of memory! PS. Yes, that was no typo. People did program with those kinds of constraints and successfully too. By the way, 1 MB of main memory in the late 1970s occupied a box that was approximately 6'x3'x6' and cost $100,000.
Here[^] - when it was just the Rutherford Labs, and had an Atlas Computer Division, physically right next door to the Harwell Nuclear Research base. That was always fun! They shared medical facilities which were based in the armed-guard-and-no-f'ing-about part (since Harwell understandably had seriously good facilities) which lead to a friend being taken to get a couple of paracetamol for her headache with an armed motorcycle escort. All she did has admit her name was Krys Zarczynski, and she was from Poland... :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
