That Commercial Subroutine Package must have been IDEAL - we were told the name came from "*LA* *E*ast *D*ouble *I*nteger" (with caps backwards). I really liked that machine, but was not so thrilled with the 1132 printer hammering away right behind my chair.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Dale Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to mention that their programming was done in Fortran, and > used the Commercial Subroutine Package, which was a set of Fortran-callable > subroutines which could do such things as decimal arithmetic, etc. > > > Dale Miller > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
