One processor; 8 virtual processors. Six microsecond memory cycle. That may not sound like much, but it was respectable for a 1960 midrange computer; better than a 7070, not as good as a 7090
FACT had language support for dealing with hierarchical record structures; to bad that never made it into COBOL.. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Clark Morris [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FACT was Re: COBOL and C [Default] On 27 Apr 2020 04:13:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >> And CPL before that (born in 1963). Yes, COBOL has roots in FLOW-MATIC >(mostly, with a light dusting of COM-TRAN), > >"FACT is fiction"? (Honeywell) The first full-time job I had coming out of school in 1961 was Equitable Life Assurance Society where they were installing a Honeywell 800 and planning to use FACT. The 800 had 8 processors and set of registers, 48 bit words and both decimal and binary arithmetic. A FACT program would use 3 of those sets as I recall. and was segmented at the paragraph level. It had a number of advanced features, some of which I would like in today's COBOL. Unfortunately it probably required a machine that had 10 times the memory and fast disk drives instead of one that was basically a tape drive machine (think rolling in code from tape repeatedly. My Netbook would be far better suited to it than the H800 as would a 4341. I downloaded a copy of the FACT manual before making this post to refresh my memory. Clark Morris > >Did the CODASYL SRC committee get anything from 9PAC? JOVIAL? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
