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| Started by | Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> |
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| First post | 2021-09-02 14:51 -0400 |
| Last post | 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000 |
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Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-02 14:51 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-09-03 03:19 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-03 14:00 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-03 17:44 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-09-03 17:43 -0300
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-03 20:51 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-04 21:29 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-09-05 04:19 -0300
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-04 15:46 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-03 14:11 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-03 19:53 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-03 13:59 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-03 20:18 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-09-05 02:14 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-05 09:47 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2021-09-05 10:00 -0500
Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-09-05 22:16 +0000
Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 05:46 -0700
Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-09-18 09:19 +0000
Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-18 15:48 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-09-05 12:05 -0400
Re: fine old languages, HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-09-05 22:20 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 18:05 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-09-05 23:00 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 16:27 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 18:30 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-08 00:17 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-06 08:50 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-09-06 11:16 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 05:50 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-09-06 15:04 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2021-09-09 02:04 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 05:37 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 13:50 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-09-16 20:22 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 14:11 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 14:05 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-16 22:55 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 15:40 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-16 18:57 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 22:33 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-17 07:13 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-05 10:44 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 09:44 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 05:43 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 13:51 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-05 14:11 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-09-05 18:31 -0300
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 19:45 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-05 13:01 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-06 17:27 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-06 23:59 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-07 09:41 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-07 11:54 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 10:58 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-07 13:42 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 05:58 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 13:42 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-16 15:12 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-16 17:40 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-07 13:42 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-07 14:53 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 12:45 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 06:00 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-07 06:45 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-09-08 16:17 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 05:55 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-16 17:40 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-16 18:16 +0000
JRRT's linguistic influences [was not really: Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox] Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-09-17 16:35 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-16 19:19 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-16 23:26 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-16 18:12 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-09-16 20:55 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-16 14:41 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-16 23:15 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-07 06:45 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-07 14:12 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-07 15:34 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-16 06:09 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2021-09-10 18:25 +0200
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-09-05 01:40 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-05 09:38 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-05 10:49 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-05 11:22 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-05 11:31 +0100
OT : Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-05 11:38 +0100
Re: OT : Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-05 12:15 +0100
Re: OT : Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-06 17:30 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-07 22:05 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-09-05 10:13 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 09:50 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-09-05 20:18 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 22:38 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-06 08:53 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-05 12:22 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-05 17:26 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 17:29 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2021-09-05 23:35 -0500
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-06 17:37 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 13:46 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-06 10:58 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 14:01 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-06 17:42 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 21:07 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-06 20:01 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-07 22:08 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-08 09:22 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-07 00:02 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-07 06:45 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-07 14:15 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-07 20:44 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2021-09-07 00:22 -0500
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-06 09:04 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-09-15 18:08 +0100
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-09-05 23:14 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 00:01 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-06 16:08 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-06 21:09 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-09-08 16:14 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2021-09-03 19:34 +0000
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-03 19:57 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-x4i-this> - 2021-09-03 08:00 -0700
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-04 15:09 -0400
Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-07 20:12 +0000
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| From | Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> |
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| Date | 2021-09-02 14:51 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox |
| Message-ID | <87fsumsteu.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> |
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:10:09 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote: > > The IBM "portable" PC was the same idea - medium-suitcase sized, > heavy as hell - very orange mini-screen - BUT you could put 640k > and an 8087 in that one. Z80s, well, not so much ..... Didn't IBM came up with that after they saw the tremendous success of the COMPAQ Portable (I think it was called "COMPAQ" when advertised). I seem to remember the look came to be when two of the employees were on a lunch break and put the design on a napkin. > OK, OK ... at 300 baud those pictures might load up just > a TAD slow ...... There was a Computer Chronicles episode about computer security in the mid 80s, where a young hacker demonstrated how to break into a BBS. The text appeared slow and the hacker mentioned something like "This 300 baud is slow. I wished we had a 1200 baud modem - that would speed things up a great deal". *g* I F'up this into the folklore group. Cannot remember seen you there. You might enjoy it. -- Andreas
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| From | SixOverFive <hae274c.net> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 03:19 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <jICdnW4qH7AGUaz8nZ2dnUU7-QPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #218632 |
On 9/2/21 2:51 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:10:09 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote: >> >> The IBM "portable" PC was the same idea - medium-suitcase sized, >> heavy as hell - very orange mini-screen - BUT you could put 640k >> and an 8087 in that one. Z80s, well, not so much ..... > > Didn't IBM came up with that after they saw the tremendous success of the > COMPAQ Portable (I think it was called "COMPAQ" when advertised). I seem > to remember the look came to be when two of the employees were on a lunch > break and put the design on a napkin. Yep, it was intended as a direct competitor to the Compaq "portable" ... and, at the time, also Osbourne and KayPro. But, like them, it was basically a desktop PC shoved into a suitcase-sized box with a handle. I was using the IBM-PPC for agricultural-product research at the time. Wanted to see how certain dusts would disperse in the wind across the fields. Kept track of wind direction/speed and there were sticky-slides at certain intervals in the bushes. Got lots of neato pretty-colored wind-drift charts out of that. From that, "average" dispersal data could be gleaned, useful for real-world application charts. >> OK, OK ... at 300 baud those pictures might load up just >> a TAD slow ...... > > There was a Computer Chronicles episode about computer security in the > mid 80s, where a young hacker demonstrated how to break into a BBS. The > text appeared slow and the hacker mentioned something like "This 300 baud > is slow. I wished we had a 1200 baud modem - that would speed things up a > great deal". *g* Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally squished the phone handpiece into them. My first 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates before then ......... Somewhere I have a Radio Shack "laptop" ... last thing Gates actually wrote some code for. This was WAY before real 'laptops'. They were VERY popular with the Press - you could fit the acoustic coupler into any phone in the world and send in your story. (also had a direct-connect phone line capability - it could dial tone or pulse AND deal with common foreign systems). Ran on actual dry/alk BATTERIES you could buy at any store. > I F'up this into the folklore group. Cannot remember seen you there. You > might enjoy it. Having LIVED a lot of this "folklore" it doesn't seem like nostalgic "lore" to me ..... But I did mostly miss the mainframe/mini days ... only had to use punchcards/paper-tape ONCE in a college class (which I dropped out of because the school already had serial terminals that'd do all that PLUS). The class was years behind the reality ......
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| From | scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 14:00 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <6UpYI.11650$2Q_3.6844@fx35.iad> |
| In reply to | #218633 |
SixOverFive <hae274c.net> writes: >On 9/2/21 2:51 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> There was a Computer Chronicles episode about computer security in the >> mid 80s, where a young hacker demonstrated how to break into a BBS. The >> text appeared slow and the hacker mentioned something like "This 300 baud >> is slow. I wished we had a 1200 baud modem - that would speed things up a >> great deal". *g* > > Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those > 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally > squished the phone handpiece into them. My first > 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At > 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time > as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates > before then ......... Try 110 baud with an ASR-33. Switching to 300 baud on a LA-120 was blazing fast...
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| From | Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 17:44 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <20210903174437.cb472b1ca827ddb506513267@eircom.net> |
| In reply to | #218634 |
On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:00:34 GMT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: > Try 110 baud with an ASR-33. We found it very useful in 1974, turn on punch both ends and run tapes through the readers at each end to get two way data transfer with hard copy. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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| From | Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 17:43 -0300 |
| Message-ID | <87k0jxv18b.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
| In reply to | #218634 |
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > SixOverFive <hae274c.net> writes: > >> Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those >> 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally >> squished the phone handpiece into them. My first >> 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At >> 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time >> as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates >> before then ......... > > Try 110 baud with an ASR-33. Switching to 300 baud on > a LA-120 was blazing fast... Would that be the same as the DEC-Writer II? Somebody gave me one of those w/ an acoustic coupler circa 1990 that I lugged home and connected just for entertainment value. IIRC, it had a 110/300 selector switch on the keyboard. I used it a few times to connect to a dialup BBS that wasn't very fast anyhow. The optical whatsit with the slotted wheel finally gave up so its only operational mode was "slam the printer head against the left stop and hold it there." I still have the cute slotted wheel somewhere and the base now supports my computer desk. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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| From | scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 20:51 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <qVvYI.21842$md6.21573@fx36.iad> |
| In reply to | #218639 |
Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes: > >scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > >> SixOverFive <hae274c.net> writes: >> >>> Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those >>> 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally >>> squished the phone handpiece into them. My first >>> 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At >>> 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time >>> as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates >>> before then ......... >> >> Try 110 baud with an ASR-33. Switching to 300 baud on >> a LA-120 was blazing fast... > >Would that be the same as the DEC-Writer II? LA-120 was the DECwriter III.
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| From | Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> |
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| Date | 2021-09-04 21:29 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <11a30602-e3bd-4819-b7d6-39a5e6bc84fen@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #218640 |
On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 2:51:36 PM UTC-6, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Mike Spencer <m...@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes: > > > >sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > > > >> SixOverFive <hae274c.net> writes: > >> > >>> Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those > >>> 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally > >>> squished the phone handpiece into them. My first > >>> 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At > >>> 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time > >>> as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates > >>> before then ......... > >> > >> Try 110 baud with an ASR-33. Switching to 300 baud on > >> a LA-120 was blazing fast... > > > >Would that be the same as the DEC-Writer II? > LA-120 was the DECwriter III. And the DECwriter II was the LA-36. John Savard
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| From | Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
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| Date | 2021-09-05 04:19 -0300 |
| Message-ID | <87fsujv69a.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
| In reply to | #218648 |
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes: > On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 2:51:36 PM UTC-6, Scott Lurndal wrote: > >> Mike Spencer <m...@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes: >> >>> Would that be the same as the DEC-Writer II? >> >> LA-120 was the DECwriter III. > > And the DECwriter II was the LA-36. Right. Thanks. I still have the user manual here somewhere but I can't find it. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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| From | gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-04 15:46 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sh00sv$a2r$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #218639 |
On 03/09/2021 21:43, Mike Spencer wrote: > scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > >> SixOverFive <hae274c.net> writes: >> >>> Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those >>> 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally >>> squished the phone handpiece into them. My first >>> 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At >>> 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time >>> as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates >>> before then ......... >> >> Try 110 baud with an ASR-33. Switching to 300 baud on >> a LA-120 was blazing fast... > > Would that be the same as the DEC-Writer II? Somebody gave me one of > those w/ an acoustic coupler circa 1990 that I lugged home and > connected just for entertainment value. IIRC, it had a 110/300 > selector switch on the keyboard. I used it a few times to connect to > a dialup BBS that wasn't very fast anyhow. The optical whatsit with > the slotted wheel finally gave up so its only operational mode was > "slam the printer head against the left stop and hold it there." > > I still have the cute slotted wheel somewhere and the base now > supports my computer desk. > The DecWriter was delivered on a pallet that had solid sheets of plywood rather than slats. As the result of that, when we first married 47 years ago, our first bookcase, which we still have and use, was made from those sheets of plywood! After the clanking Teletypes, how we praised the DecWriter for its quietness, but perhaps nowadays we'd think it to be a noisy thing!
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| From | J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 14:11 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <b164jgt5pl8tuuu7gs8s4gtjd6ldsf4tao@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #218633 |
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 03:19:54 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote: >On 9/2/21 2:51 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:10:09 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote: >>> >>> The IBM "portable" PC was the same idea - medium-suitcase sized, >>> heavy as hell - very orange mini-screen - BUT you could put 640k >>> and an 8087 in that one. Z80s, well, not so much ..... >> >> Didn't IBM came up with that after they saw the tremendous success of the >> COMPAQ Portable (I think it was called "COMPAQ" when advertised). I seem >> to remember the look came to be when two of the employees were on a lunch >> break and put the design on a napkin. > > Yep, it was intended as a direct competitor to the > Compaq "portable" ... and, at the time, also Osbourne > and KayPro. > > But, like them, it was basically a desktop PC shoved > into a suitcase-sized box with a handle. > > I was using the IBM-PPC for agricultural-product > research at the time. Wanted to see how certain > dusts would disperse in the wind across the fields. > Kept track of wind direction/speed and there were > sticky-slides at certain intervals in the bushes. > Got lots of neato pretty-colored wind-drift > charts out of that. From that, "average" dispersal > data could be gleaned, useful for real-world > application charts. > >>> OK, OK ... at 300 baud those pictures might load up just >>> a TAD slow ...... >> >> There was a Computer Chronicles episode about computer security in the >> mid 80s, where a young hacker demonstrated how to break into a BBS. The >> text appeared slow and the hacker mentioned something like "This 300 baud >> is slow. I wished we had a 1200 baud modem - that would speed things up a >> great deal". *g* > > Heh ... yea yea ... I *remember*. Had one of those > 'acoustic modems' in the beginning - you literally > squished the phone handpiece into them. My first > 1200 baud was Anchor Robotics. VASTLY better. At > 300 baud you could actually read the text real-time > as it came in. Oh well, there WERE slower baud rates > before then ......... > > Somewhere I have a Radio Shack "laptop" ... last > thing Gates actually wrote some code for. This was > WAY before real 'laptops'. They were VERY popular > with the Press - you could fit the acoustic coupler > into any phone in the world and send in your story. > (also had a direct-connect phone line capability - > it could dial tone or pulse AND deal with common > foreign systems). Ran on actual dry/alk BATTERIES > you could buy at any store. > >> I F'up this into the folklore group. Cannot remember seen you there. You >> might enjoy it. > > Having LIVED a lot of this "folklore" it doesn't seem > like nostalgic "lore" to me ..... > > But I did mostly miss the mainframe/mini days ... > only had to use punchcards/paper-tape ONCE in a > college class (which I dropped out of because > the school already had serial terminals that'd > do all that PLUS). The class was years behind > the reality ...... Some professors are like that. I remember helping an undergrad find the keypunch (I was a computer science grad student and I didn't even know the school _had_ a keypunch or card reader until that came up). Seems he was taking a programming course from somebody in the chemistry department and that idiot insisted that his students use cards because that's what they'd be working with in the real world. I ended up having to go dig up an operator.
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| From | Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 19:53 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <20210903195345.1fe658b46921b8bcfff7a36e@eircom.net> |
| In reply to | #218636 |
On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:11:42 -0400 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > and that idiot insisted that his students use > cards because that's what they'd be working with in the real world. Reminds me of the A level computer science course I wished I hadn't taken - the year before it had been all about machine architecture, assembly language programming, data structures and algorithms, fun stuff. But I wasn't allowed to take it that year (because I was taking my O levels) I had to wait and take it the following year and so the course I got to take was COBOL, systems analysis and data validation and not what I had been looking forward to at all. But it was "what we'd be working with in the real world" or so I was told when I moaned about the change. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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| From | Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 13:59 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <601278435.652395486.631602.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #218637 |
Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:11:42 -0400 > J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > >> and that idiot insisted that his students use >> cards because that's what they'd be working with in the real world. > > Reminds me of the A level computer science course I wished I hadn't > taken - the year before it had been all about machine architecture, > assembly language programming, data structures and algorithms, fun stuff. > But I wasn't allowed to take it that year (because I was taking my O > levels) I had to wait and take it the following year and so the course I > got to take was COBOL, systems analysis and data validation and not what I > had been looking forward to at all. But it was "what we'd be working with > in the real world" or so I was told when I moaned about the change. > COBOL programmers are still in demand, apparently. -- Pete
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| From | J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-03 20:18 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <brd5jg11h2sv67g34rh4kfghd64mvv8ndu@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #218641 |
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:59:26 -0700, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote: >Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote: >> On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:11:42 -0400 >> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> and that idiot insisted that his students use >>> cards because that's what they'd be working with in the real world. >> >> Reminds me of the A level computer science course I wished I hadn't >> taken - the year before it had been all about machine architecture, >> assembly language programming, data structures and algorithms, fun stuff. >> But I wasn't allowed to take it that year (because I was taking my O >> levels) I had to wait and take it the following year and so the course I >> got to take was COBOL, systems analysis and data validation and not what I >> had been looking forward to at all. But it was "what we'd be working with >> in the real world" or so I was told when I moaned about the change. >> > >COBOL programmers are still in demand, apparently. They are. Unfortunately these days to get a job you have to move to India and be willing to work for an Indian wage. It's a _good_ Indian wage mind you, I understand you can live comfortably on it, but it's below US minimum.
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| From | SixOverFive <hae274c.net> |
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| Date | 2021-09-05 02:14 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <4vmdndlRB4Tf_an8nZ2dnUU7-cPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #218643 |
On 9/3/21 8:18 PM, J. Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:59:26 -0700, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote: >>> On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:11:42 -0400 >>> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> and that idiot insisted that his students use >>>> cards because that's what they'd be working with in the real world. >>> >>> Reminds me of the A level computer science course I wished I hadn't >>> taken - the year before it had been all about machine architecture, >>> assembly language programming, data structures and algorithms, fun stuff. >>> But I wasn't allowed to take it that year (because I was taking my O >>> levels) I had to wait and take it the following year and so the course I >>> got to take was COBOL, systems analysis and data validation and not what I >>> had been looking forward to at all. But it was "what we'd be working with >>> in the real world" or so I was told when I moaned about the change. >>> >> >> COBOL programmers are still in demand, apparently. > > They are. Unfortunately these days to get a job you have to move to > India and be willing to work for an Indian wage. It's a _good_ Indian > wage mind you, I understand you can live comfortably on it, but it's > below US minimum. Know a guy who got a job fairly recently at a govt op ... one requirement was that he learn COBOL because they'd heavily invested in *perfect* COBOL apps way back in the day and would not, could not afford to, have them re-written in anything else. Important customized stuff like payrolls, scheduling ... COBOL was a wonder-language back in the day, perfect for all kinds of biz apps and (sort of) self-documenting because of the quasi-natural-language code. Its "PIC" statement was great, could do everything printf() can do, help you out with format conversions and forms. It was assumed you were using TTY terminals and serial ASCII printers. There ARE a couple of COBOL development tools for Linux ... one, I think, will even set up tinted columns for the older, more anal, COBOL versions where you had to put certain codes in EXACTLY the right columns. DID make the compilers simpler ... And for the science types, FORTRAN. That's ALSO still used. There are HUGE libraries of heavy-duty sci-related code that NOBODY dares throw away and don't have the time/budget to recreate. I remember having to translate a FORTRAN stats collection into IBMPC BASICA ... long "poke" lines for working the 8087 .... yuk ! Despite the similar-looking chip number, the 8087 was NOT like the 8088 (or most any other microprocessor). A very different paradigm. A couple years later the compiler-makers all added '87 math libraries and that made it all disappear, but BEFORE .... let's say I was *thrilled* that Turbo Pascal included an '87 code switch - right when I had to write something that did a lot of graphic transforms. I'd suggest "Foley & Van-Dam Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics" ... STILL worth looking at. That's how it really gets done "under the hood".
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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
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| Date | 2021-09-05 09:47 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sh207o$sdd$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #218650 |
On 05/09/2021 07:14, SixOverFive wrote: > On 9/3/21 8:18 PM, J. Clarke wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:59:26 -0700, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:11:42 -0400 >>>> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> and that idiot insisted that his students use >>>>> cards because that's what they'd be working with in the real world. >>>> >>>> Reminds me of the A level computer science course I wished I hadn't >>>> taken - the year before it had been all about machine architecture, >>>> assembly language programming, data structures and algorithms, fun >>>> stuff. >>>> But I wasn't allowed to take it that year (because I was taking my O >>>> levels) I had to wait and take it the following year and so the >>>> course I >>>> got to take was COBOL, systems analysis and data validation and not >>>> what I >>>> had been looking forward to at all. But it was "what we'd be working >>>> with >>>> in the real world" or so I was told when I moaned about the change. >>>> >>> >>> COBOL programmers are still in demand, apparently. >> >> They are. Unfortunately these days to get a job you have to move to >> India and be willing to work for an Indian wage. It's a _good_ Indian >> wage mind you, I understand you can live comfortably on it, but it's >> below US minimum. > > Know a guy who got a job fairly recently at a govt > op ... one requirement was that he learn COBOL because > they'd heavily invested in *perfect* COBOL apps way > back in the day and would not, could not afford to, > have them re-written in anything else. Important > customized stuff like payrolls, scheduling ... > > COBOL was a wonder-language back in the day, perfect for > all kinds of biz apps and (sort of) self-documenting > because of the quasi-natural-language code. Its "PIC" > statement was great, could do everything printf() can > do, help you out with format conversions and forms. > It was assumed you were using TTY terminals and serial > ASCII printers. There ARE a couple of COBOL development > tools for Linux ... one, I think, will even set up > tinted columns for the older, more anal, COBOL versions > where you had to put certain codes in EXACTLY the > right columns. DID make the compilers simpler ... > COBOL was and is a damned good language for commercial programming: It enforces a discipline on coding and can be used on machines with extremely low RAM. It is extremely *efficient* in execution (though massively wordy in source code) What it didn't have back them was a database language to run under it. I particularly liked an idea which I believe it originated - and that is a formal way of specifying the data structures - tables and fields - in advance. When building SQL style applications this is massively useful even in a small project coded by a single person > And for the science types, FORTRAN. That's ALSO still > used. There are HUGE libraries of heavy-duty sci-related > code that NOBODY dares throw away and don't have the > time/budget to recreate. I remember having to translate > a FORTRAN stats collection into IBMPC BASICA ... long > "poke" lines for working the 8087 .... yuk ! > > Despite the similar-looking chip number, the 8087 was > NOT like the 8088 (or most any other microprocessor). > A very different paradigm. A couple years later the > compiler-makers all added '87 math libraries and that > made it all disappear, but BEFORE .... let's say I > was *thrilled* that Turbo Pascal included an '87 > code switch - right when I had to write something that > did a lot of graphic transforms. > > I'd suggest "Foley & Van-Dam Fundamentals Of Interactive > Computer Graphics" ... STILL worth looking at. That's how > it really gets done "under the hood". Again, FORTRAN is a fully functional efficient compiled procedural language. There is no need to 'improve' it. The IT world gota lot worse when computer scientists started writing languages. They just couldn't keep it simple. They had to show off. Hence 'object oriented' rubbish and 'operator overloading' - sheesh the worst idea EVER. Making a expresssion symbol dependent on the context in which its being used. -- “when things get difficult you just have to lie” ― Jean Claud Jüncker
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| From | drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) |
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| Date | 2021-09-05 10:00 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <Dt6dnaFrHvQDRqn8nZ2dnUU7-RudnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #218653 |
> COBOL was and is a damned good language for commercial programming: It > enforces a discipline on coding Hah. You can write bad code in any language, and CObOL gives you plenty of rope. ALTER clause anyone? De
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| From | John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-05 22:16 +0000 |
| Subject | Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox |
| Message-ID | <sh3fkl$1gii$1@gal.iecc.com> |
| In reply to | #218666 |
According to Dennis Boone <drb@ihatespam.msu.edu>: > > COBOL was and is a damned good language for commercial programming: It > > enforces a discipline on coding > >Hah. You can write bad code in any language, and CObOL gives you >plenty of rope. ALTER clause anyone? No worse than the Fortran assigned GOTO. Sensible programmers stopped using them as soon as there were other ways to write subroutines, like about 1962. Academincs sneered at COBOL because it was so wordy and looked like pseudo-English but it had a lot of good ideas that modern programmers have no idea originated there. C structures and C++ class data structures are COBOL data (via PL/I which got them from COBOL and uses essentially the COBOL syntax.) The COBOL report writer was one of the first uses of coroutines but unfortunately few COBOL programmers understood it well enough to use it effectively. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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| From | Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> |
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| Date | 2021-09-16 05:46 -0700 |
| Subject | Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox |
| Message-ID | <4aa1c7bc-2459-432c-9fbb-56f4712e0644n@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #218676 |
On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 4:16:55 PM UTC-6, John Levine wrote: > According to Dennis Boone <d...@ihatespam.msu.edu>: > >Hah. You can write bad code in any language, and CObOL gives you > >plenty of rope. ALTER clause anyone? > No worse than the Fortran assigned GOTO. Sensible programmers stopped using them > as soon as there were other ways to write subroutines, like about 1962. Actually, the ALTER mechanism in COBOL is much, much worse than the assigned GOTO in FORTRAN, since there is no evidence in COBOL at the site of the GOTO being altered that an alteration has taken place. That is a language construct tailor-made for malfeasance. John Savard
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| From | Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> |
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| Date | 2021-09-18 09:19 +0000 |
| Subject | Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox |
| Message-ID | <si4avv$sce$2@newsreader4.netcologne.de> |
| In reply to | #218842 |
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> schrieb: > On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 4:16:55 PM UTC-6, John Levine wrote: >> According to Dennis Boone <d...@ihatespam.msu.edu>: > >> >Hah. You can write bad code in any language, and CObOL gives you >> >plenty of rope. ALTER clause anyone? > >> No worse than the Fortran assigned GOTO. Sensible programmers stopped using them >> as soon as there were other ways to write subroutines, like about 1962. > > Actually, the ALTER mechanism in COBOL is much, much worse than the assigned > GOTO in FORTRAN, since there is no evidence in COBOL at the site of the GOTO > being altered that an alteration has taken place. AT (used for debugging purposes in early FORTRAN) actually implemented come-from.
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| From | Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> |
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| Date | 2021-09-18 15:48 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: real programmers, was HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox |
| Message-ID | <20210918154851.ba8255ff33fc9dd6260d0b1f@eircom.net> |
| In reply to | #218894 |
On Sat, 18 Sep 2021 09:19:59 -0000 (UTC) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote: > AT (used for debugging purposes in early FORTRAN) actually implemented > come-from. XSLT control flow is best described as come-from with wild cards. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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