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Re: Python programming

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Python programming
Date 2014-02-12 21:13 -0500
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:43:09 -0500, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>I think it was a Xerox Sigma:
>

	WHERE?!!!

	The only places I know of that had Sigma's were NASA, Missile Systems
Division of Lockheed Missiles & Space (Sunnyvale, 1981 -- they were
drafting a set of requirements to replace the Sigma. I looked at those
requirement and concluded there was only one viable alternative -- a
Honeywell DPS-8 running CP/6; the requirements specified the CP/V
In/Out/Update/Scratch file modes, and I've never seen any other system that
had Update/Scratch*... Also specified the equivalent of consecutive, keyed,
and random file organization), McDonnell-Douglas "McAuto", and... Wayne
State, Hope College, and Grand Valley (all three in Michigan... GV was
mine)


*	For the bystanders: Update and Scratch maintained separate read/write
file positions. An Update file required one to read one or more records
before writing, the write position trailed the read position. Scratch was
the opposite; one wrote data and then could read it back later -- the write
position had to be ahead of the read position.

	Oh,  consecutive was equivalent to a UNIX stream file; no structure.
Keyed was ISAM (and even the text editor used this -- the line numbers were
ISAM keys). Random... Was a preallocated /contiguous/ block of disk -- the
OS did nothing for structure.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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