On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:40:12 +0200, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >[1] Some funny system with ancestry between the S/360 Model 20 and the >iSeries of today (that is, the "RPG range") used diddy 96 column cards I >seem to remember. > Is something a programming language just because people used it for programming? :-) An RPG program was sort of an accounting machine simulator. The program source was a punch board specification. (I suppose plugging a punch board on an accounting machine was programming.) The 96 column card used on the S/3 was really 3 tiers of rows, 32 col wide. The card handling equipment was very good. (The rare card jams of the MFCU were trivial to clear. Card jams on a Mod 20's MFCM were common and horrible to clear.) The human engineering that went into the cards was not so good. Picking up a 4-inch deck could result in your holding the first and last card of the deck with the rest of the cards sprayed across the room. BTDT. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
