Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-19 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2017-03-17 3:19 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: From: Chuck Guzis Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:27 AM On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had been around half a century, so was probably playing on the

RE: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-19 Thread Rich Alderson via cctalk
From: Chuck Guzis Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:27 AM > On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had >> been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to >> inspire Backus. Does that mean that

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-17 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had > been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to > inspire Backus. Does that mean that Dan. might be right about it > being the predecessor to FORTRAN?

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
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, . . . Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen? It's Valdres

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-17 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/17/2017 10:06 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Oh, I know--I was making a joke. It's a fine march and I've > performed it in convert bands many times. Er, make that "concert bands" --Chuck

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-17 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/17/2017 06:46 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: >> On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> >> >> Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen? > > It's Valdres

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > > Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen? It's Valdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdres and Valdres march. -- Regards, Torfinn

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-16 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-16 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-16 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
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

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-16 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
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

Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-16 Thread ben via cctalk
On 3/16/2017 5:16 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:08 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts