back in '67 at RCA Global, we wrote out maintenance programs in 501 machine code (octal, of course),
then we went and punched the lot out on paper tape on a flexowriter. the 501 sans operating system would just suck up the paper tape and run.
mainly we wrote machine code because a cobol compile took an entire SHIFT! if you had a big cobol program you wrote machine code patches for it for about a year before the next compile. if there were any compile errors, you patched around them.
1) it dates from a time when there were values and achievement meant something. it was an entry point to what was then true geekdom. I worked for a year to go from 5 to 13 wpm. i accomplished something myself without people worrying whether i felt good or not.(that was 1955!). an there was no easy way. no politically correct programs delivering success for all. if you wanted it, you did it.
twenty years ago we were marketing our mailing list of DECPro subscribers to our advertisers (suprise!)
every list sale had unique seed names/addresses inserted and we tracked whatever arrived at those addresses. every sales agreement had a paragraph in which the renter agreed that there were seed addresses inserted.
i live in a very remote area of western new mexico. the only local radio is in navajo. you can get one or two bubble gum stations from gallup. before primestar, i had to listen to the bbc on s/w for news.
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back in '67 at RCA Global, we wrote out maintenance programs in 501 machine code (octal, of course),
then we went and punched the lot out on paper tape on a flexowriter. the 501 sans operating system would just suck up the paper tape and run.
mainly we wrote machine code because a cobol compile took an entire SHIFT! if you had a big cobol program you wrote machine code patches for it for about a year before the next compile. if there were any compile errors, you patched around them.
men were men.
i spent 13 years writing about dec in decpro and rstspro magazines.
i often was critical. ken never failed to greet me and was ever gracious.
i think of him rolling out his g4 at bedford.
fare foward, ken
dave mallery
i think it is simply that the sco scam has finally run out of fud.
dave
1) it dates from a time when there were values and achievement meant something. it was an entry point to what was then true geekdom. I worked for a year to go from 5 to 13 wpm. i accomplished something myself without people worrying whether i felt good or not.(that was 1955!). an there was no easy way. no politically correct programs delivering success for all. if you wanted it, you did it.
k5en
twenty years ago we were marketing our mailing list of DECPro subscribers to our advertisers (suprise!)
every list sale had unique seed names/addresses inserted and we tracked whatever arrived at those addresses. every sales agreement had a paragraph in which the renter agreed that there were seed addresses inserted.
hi
the problem is that openoffice does not have
list processing... that needs the adabas dbms.
so the only way i can exit from corel wp8 is
via star office 6. none of the freebies can
do list processing.
dave
i live in a very remote area of western new mexico. the only local radio is in navajo. you can get one or two bubble gum stations from gallup. before primestar, i had to listen to the bbc on s/w for news.
i'm ready.
if you can remember wayyyy back, there was another single processor 8700 that was re-issued as an 8800
they were vaxen.