Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python Date: 6 Mar 2026 09:02:08 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <10i13o0$c16d$1@dont-email.me> <10o9mre$327a7$3@dont-email.me> <10oa737$38s6l$1@dont-email.me> <10oac32$3aedo$3@dont-email.me> <10oascp$3fi12$1@dont-email.me> <1k0p7mx56a.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10od65l$8714$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net I0ldQZz7hE30w7PpczyHYACJY0w2V2/pEVkkGnZd2J8ioFIhF6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zgNsqbw32IEvTnN8UBg5HyEVeq0= sha256:2cRkhR1R2GG4yemuCCJ75j/ZFIxZRtQKqSMYYYHbxrs= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82467 alt.folklore.computers:234061 comp.lang.python:197686 On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:12:35 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote: > Five computers, not three. General Purpose Computers, GPCs. Was it "IBM > AP-101/S"? Four of them run the Primary Avionics Software System, PASS. I had to double take when I saw the initialism! I have spent a lot of this week immersed in an details of an old computer system which used General Peripheral Controllers. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org