In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/23/2006
at 10:00 AM, Kirk Talman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>All the AEC national labs in the 50's made their own machines.
>Robert Rannie of Share boat paddle fame made his start as a
>programmer in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (X-10 site) on one of
>those machines. It was replaced at ORNL by a CDC 1604 which was a
>709x like machine (36 bit octal)
The 7090 was a 36-bit machine; the 1604 was a 48-bit machine.
>from which we got HASP later called JES2.
It wasn't just a name change; the code was drastically revised. --
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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