On Dec 12, 2007, at 21:58 , Nicola Marzari wrote: >> I am old enough to have seen card punchers in action, so the term >> "abend" is not unknown to me, but I guess younger people don't >> know that it is a shorthand for "abnormal end", on IBM mainframes... > > What's a mainframe ? Is it like a really, really big ipod ?
do you remember the picture of the "home computer in 2004" you sent me some time ago ? http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/public/pc2004.jpg :-) P. --- Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
