At 11:52 PM -0500 11/27/01, lsellers wrote: >At 10:19 PM 11/27/2001 -0600, you wrote: >>huh. I had to check. >> >>"OCTAL ABSOLUTE: A numbering system using eight as a base instead of two, as >>in binary, or ten, as in decimal." > >It used to be all the rage in the 70's. Back when men were real men and >programmed in direct machine language. Not that nancy assembly language. > >--min >
ROFLOL Actually, it was the 50's... IBM came out with it's first assembler for the IBM 650 computer... it was called SOAP (Symbolic Optimal Assembler Program). As I recall, the 650 had 1K of drum memory. Because of the drum, there was a latency between the fetch of each instruction. One of the responsibilities of the programmer (and later the SOAP assembler) was to properly position the instructions on the drum so that when an instruction finished executing the next was about to become available under the drum read/write head... to eliminate latency delay. The top computer manufacturers of the day were: Univac (Remmington) Sperry-Rand General Electric-Honeywell Burroughs NCR Control Data Alwac IBM Later, RCA Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
