Well, 1976 is a far cry from the 1950s... Johnny
Bill Cunningham <[email protected]> skrev: (27 februari 2016 23:59:06 CET) >Calculators I'm thinking of are "HandHeld" and the IC by Jack Kilby. > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby > >1976. The "year the slide rule died" They say. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Johnny Billquist > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:05 PM > Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix > > > On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote: > > >>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in the 1950s and >it was some early calculators that killed slide rules. What kind of >"processor" were they using? I'm not so sure there was real HLL before >Adm. Hopper. And no binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything >from the '40s? > > >> HLL? I was talking about assembler... Anyway, I don't believe COBOL >was the first HLL, though it certainly was fairly early. > > The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN. Lisp might have been the > second, but I'm not entirely sure. > > I'm not sure what kind of calculators Bill are thinking of. But until >the early 70s, calculators were usually mechanical, or >electromechanical > things with cogwheels, and definitely worked in decimal. > No processors in there... > > Johnny > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: [email protected] || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Simh mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
