On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, David Boyes wrote:
I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7! :-)
I'm pretty sure the Boston Computer Museum has one. Unknown if it's
functional, but I think they at least have the shell.
Scarily enough, I had a conversation with someone today who
There was a numeric label in columns 1-6, I think the c was in column 7.
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Yeah, I don't know
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From: Samy Rengasamy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:14 PM
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Can you post the updated script, Please.
Thanks,
Samy Rengasamy
Just looked over it now. Very very nice, I think I'll make
good use of it, thank you.
Glad to hear it. It's always good to know something you did was useful to
someone.
It's funny, Unix people say (think it was Kernighan or
Ritchie who said it first) that this is a spartan operating
use the
left most bit to prevent sign issues. I can't remembe which.
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There was a 14 character
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Now that you mention it, I worked with an IBM assembler on a System3 that had a
similar limit. This was due to the fact that the mnemonics were in a fixed position
on the card, I think in position 10
This is the good kinda stuff. I like history lessons. Heck, I've never
even seen a card reader/punch 'cept in old movies.
Really interesting.
Leland
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Now that you mention it, I worked with an IBM assembler on a System3
that had a similar
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This is the good kinda stuff. I like history lessons. Heck, I've never
even seen a card reader/punch 'cept in old movies
Heck, I've never even seen a card reader/punch 'cept in old movies.
Okay, ladies and gents.
I'll hold him down and you can all jump on him...
:-D (hehehehehe)
I doubt that it would be possible to port Linux. I don't think GCC works on 16-bit
systems.
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Air traffic control?
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I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7
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I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7! :-)
Don't forget uphill both ways... and in the snow...
On Friday 01 August 2003 12:39 pm, you wrote:
You young whipper-snappers don't know how good you got it.
Why, when I was young, all we had was wood-burning computers!
We had to go out in the snow every morning and chop kindling
so we
Don't forget uphill both ways... and in the snow...
This is starting to sound like our Linux project here. ;-)
Leland
And it was UPHILL in both directions and 3 feet of snow all year round.
/Thomas Kern
/301-903-2211
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From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 13:40
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Yeah, I don't know which came first, the coding form or the symbol table =
design. And since everything had to fit into the first 72 columns of an =
80 column card, real estate was precious.
For FORTRAN, wasn't the first column reserved to designate a Comment
card? (I'm sure that the C had to
HAHAHAHA. There's not much you can do with 8 bytes.
You meant 8 BITS, didn't you? Sure, there was a lot of
stuff we had to stuff into 8 bits! Additional bytes
were a luxury... ;-)
=
Jim Sibley
Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley
Computer are useless.They can
I doubt that it would be possible to port Linux. I don't think GCC
works on 16-bit systems.
Someone said that once. And due to an unfortunate incident involving
alcohol, engineers and the phrase it can't be .. it was. Linux8086
doesn't use gcc and can be found at elks.sourceforge.net
FORTRAN... depending on how old you are, meaning which version you used...
mine was a number of versions of ForTran IV...
comments began with a C in column 1
continued lines had a character in column 6
(aside: it is widely believed that you needed 1,2,3 etc. for the
appropriately
numbered line
Ah well, regrets over... we now return you to your regularly scheduled
You had 1s?
We were doing this with only 0s! BYTE8406(1) reminiscences.
Got tears on this closure HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I doubt that it would be possible to port Linux. I don't think
GCC
works on 16-bit systems.
Someone said
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I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7! :-)
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System/7 !?!?!?! I haven't heard mention of that in decades. Is there
a Linux port for it?
I would guess that
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No, but there was a internal MS version of Xenix that ran on the Series/1.
Almost as antique and weird as the System/7...8-)
-- db
I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7! :-)
I'm pretty sure the Boston Computer Museum has one. Unknown if it's
functional, but I think they at least have the shell.
Scarily enough, I had a conversation with someone today who actually has
virgin Multics boot tapes for the
Of
David Boyes
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I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7! :-)
I'm pretty sure the Boston Computer Museum has one. Unknown if it's
David, did you catch the reference I made to the SIMH emulator?!?!?
They are working with stuff like that. I think he's interested in that
family of machines.
SIMH emulates a PDP-7 (among other things). The IBM System/7 is a different
animal.
(and yes, SIMH will load my paper tape of
Can you post the updated script, Please.
Thanks,
Samy Rengasamy.
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From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:49 PM
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If anyone is interested, I've
to the little script I post the other day...
Can you post the updated script, Please.
Thanks,
Samy Rengasamy.
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From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:49 PM
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Subject: An update to the little script I post
If anyone is interested, I've updated that script I posted the other day
that allows you to edit MVS PDSes from Linux. It now supports z/VM as well
and provides improved handling of large directory lists. (The first one
basically sucked for large lists.)
Unfortunately, it requires a patch to
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