Warren:
My God, you've been around even longer than me. I only joined IBM on
Nov. 9, 1964 and started programming school the day before OS/360 went
GA. How many other old f***s (friends) have we out here on this forum?
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
(919) 341-5210
On 03/09/2017 07:39 PM, Warren Brown wrote:
I thought it was me . .joined IBM the same day as the 360 was announced
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On Thu, 3/9/17, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017, 7:26 PM
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com
(John McKown) writes:
> ​Same in other
books I've seen. Why? Probably because we write from top
to
> bottom. We write the lowest first,
at the top, and the highest last, at the
> bottom. And then we confuse everybody by
calling them "ascending" memory
> addresses while writing them in a
descending pattern. English is a _stupid_
> language.
in the 70s as fullscreen 3270s editors were
starting to appear, there
was big editor
culture wars over up & down.
prior to that, line-editing was from
perspective of the user ... "up"
moving towards the "top" (beginning)
of the file and "down" was moving
towards the "bottom" (end) of the
file.
The side that had
enhanced previous line editors to support 3270
fullscreen and preserved the up/down
orientation (meaning).
A
couple of "new" 3270 fullscreen editors, done from
scratch, insisted
on "up" was from
the orientation of the program (not the user), the
program would move the file up ... towards the
bottom of the file or
move the file
"down" ... towards the top of the file (difference
was`
whether up/down was from the human
perspective or the program/software
perspective).
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