On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> In response to a question of who provided the Lisa FORTRAN, guy who
> insisted that Valtrep was the predecessor of FORTRAN 'course he also
> had OS/2 for the PDP-11, and a PROGRAM that could duplicate alignment
> disks, . . .
Oh jeez, not
On 03/16/2017 06:28 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> But was FORTRAN that portable? Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think
> of a small computer that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile
> FORTRAN. All the other 16 bitters seem to more paper tape I/O. I
> suspect 90% of all university computers
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On 3/16/2017 5:16 PM, Bill
Who was it who said, "FORTRAN is more portable than syphilis"
I found it!
I thought Djikstra, but it turned out to be Stan Kelly-Bootle:
"The definition of FORTRAN from the "Devil's DP Dictionary", by
Stan Kelly-Bootle:
"FORTRAN n. [Acronym for FORmula TRANslating system.]
One of the earliest
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, ben via cctalk wrote:
But was FORTRAN that portable?
Who was it who said, "FORTRAN is more portable than syphilis"
Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think of a small computer
that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile FORTRAN. All the
other 16 bitters seem to more
On 3/16/2017 5:16 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
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That is in fact how I spot degauss CRT screens, but using a flat wood
boring bit (metal, obviously, instead of a paint stick) with the magnet
stuck on the end, spun around with a drill.
- J.
On 3/16/2017 6:37 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
It sounds like one can make a fine tape degausser by
It sounds like one can make a fine tape degausser by connecting
a super magnet to the end of a paint stirring rod and use a drill
to spin it.
Dwight
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If anyone has a Diehl Combitron or one of the NCR versions. I'd love
to have one. I used one years ago while working for UofMiami.
I used it because it could be programmed and did square root.
I can't pay what one is worth but would still love to have one.
Dwight
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On 03/16/2017 02:54 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> wrote:
>>> Porting to diverse architectures is still a great way to find
>>> latent bugs.
>>
>> Too bad people can't be arsed to port merely to diverse
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
wrote:
>> Porting to diverse architectures is still a great way to find latent bugs.
>
> Too bad people can't be arsed to port merely to diverse *operating systems*,
> let alone architectures.
I'm one of the folks
> > I politely suggested they should go back and read up on what
> > "undefined" means and then go fix their code...
>
> Porting to diverse architectures is still a great way to find latent bugs.
Too bad people can't be arsed to port merely to diverse *operating systems*,
let alone
On 2017-03-16 5:09 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
wrote:
On 2017-03-15 5:17 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
Has anybody else noticed that the meaning of "portable code" seems to have
morphed into "can be built on two or
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
wrote:
> On 2017-03-15 5:17 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>> Has anybody else noticed that the meaning of "portable code" seems to have
>> morphed into "can be built on two or three different flavours of Linux"?
>
Jay,
I think that despite the occasional venting of frustration we're mostly just
trying to add some data points that may help in the migration.
I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the time, effort
and whatever else you and certain others have contributed to keep
It was written
==
This header change thing is A BIG MESS! Make it like before, PLEASE!
It's just annoying, unusable (On my iOS devices, I can't find the original
sender at all!) and completely unneeded.
I'm losing fun using the list.
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We've been in the
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:49:56AM -0600, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:28 AM, geneb via cctalk
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >> I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it
> >>
> >> 202x All the
On 03/07/2017 10:57 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Mouse wrote:
[...]
And BTW, what you are doing is not clever at all:
mo...@rodents-montreal.org
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host MX-4.rodents-montreal.org [98.124.61.89]:
This header change thing is A BIG MESS! Make it like before, PLEASE!
It's just annoying, unusable (On my iOS devices, I can't find the
original sender at all!) and completely unneeded.
I'm losing fun using the list.
On 03/04/2017 08:38 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
For now I
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:28 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it
>>
>> 202x All the world's an ARM running Android
>>
> on Linux. :)
Kinda... It's a forked Linux kernel
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it
202x All the world's an ARM running Android
on Linux. :)
g.
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Here¹s a long shot, about as long as they get.
I received an Intel iPSC/860 supercomputer, but it¹s lacking the Intel SRM
(System Resource Manager), without which the system is a boat anchor.
The SRM is an Intel 386 desktop machine, with a SYP301 motherboard and a
plugin card to connect it to
On 16/03/2017 00:30, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk wrote:
I have announced that there will be a kind of
handle for the boards this time... I went to my neighbour and showed him
some bits and pieces. He has a nice little workshop for concrete artwork
(https://www.fritzundfranz.com/) and spent a
On 16/03/2017 07:30, SPC via cctalk wrote:
Well... I'm needing some of them for my PDP8/E. So I think this is a good idea.
Regards
Sergio
2017-03-16 1:30 GMT+01:00 Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk :
Hi folks,
this might be quite interesting for the folks that miss front
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, dwight wrote:
The Olivetti used a piece of wire for the delay line. I forget what the
Dielh Combitron used but I know it used a two delay lines. One was for
registers and the other was for lookup tables that loaded at turn on
time from a metal tape ( as I recall ).
I can
Well... I'm needing some of them for my PDP8/E. So I think this is a good idea.
Regards
Sergio
2017-03-16 1:30 GMT+01:00 Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk :
> Hi folks,
>
> this might be quite interesting for the folks that miss front panel switch
> handles!
>
> As some of you
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