Bernd Oppolzer schrieb:
It was in use at the Stuttgart university from 1973 to 1980, and I studied
Informatik there from 1977 until 1985, so I spent some days and nights
with this machine. After that, we got a VAX 11/780; that was a very nice
machine, too.
I also had much fun with the TR-440,
Am 08.10.2013 15:54, schrieb Saunders, Rich:
Thanks for the correction about descriptor architecture. I thought you
were referring to the file system tagging stuff.
I would hope that someday the good ideas of the past would find their
way back into general use.
I also remember some really aw
Thanks for the correction about descriptor architecture. I thought you
were referring to the file system tagging stuff.
I would hope that someday the good ideas of the past would find their
way back into general use.
I also remember some really awesome attributes of VMS that have been
discar
Saunders, Rich wrote:
Deeply weird is right!
I fondly remember the Burroughs series. I had to port a very large
FORTRAN system to it for our client, the Quaker Oats Company. They used
a set of these mainframes for their main systems.
I loved the idea of the descriptor-oriented architecture.
Deeply weird is right!
I fondly remember the Burroughs series. I had to port a very large
FORTRAN system to it for our client, the Quaker Oats Company. They used
a set of these mainframes for their main systems.
I loved the idea of the descriptor-oriented architecture. Each file was
tagged w
I thought this might interest some people because on the one hand it's a
significant part of the history of ALGOL-derived languages, and on the
other the implementation is deeply weird.
As some might recall, Burroughs had a range of "Large System" computers
from the 1960s through '80s which we
