LOL ! I got that fellows :D But, I guess, computer geeks don't usually have girl friends and the same I do!! Unfortunately :(
LOL On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:37 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, August 19, 2008 12:06, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:50 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > >> I don't recall that anybody referred to "DASD" connected to our IBM > >> 1401; > >> it was just "disk". Were we just a weird corner (I wouldn't swear they > >> didn't use some weird term like DASD in the manuals, just that none of > >> the > >> people I worked with used it)? Or was that a later term, say from the > >> 360 > >> generation? > >> > >> (When I worked on the 1401, we were in fact well into the 360 generation > >> chronologically, just not at the place I was working; that was in 1969, > >> and we moved from the 1401 to a DEC PDP-11/20 just a couple of years > >> after > >> that.) > > > > Ditto here. But our 1401 stuff was being emulated on S360/30. During > > that time, DASD became the lazy acronym used extensively to cover any of > > the then-extant direct-access devices (drums, cylinders, "disks" - > > euphemistically mounted in "pizza ovens (2314/19 IIRC). > > We emulated the 1401 on the DEC 11/20 for a while, first with a standalone > emulator, later with a run-time system that integrated into RSTS and let > us run the 1401 applications under time-sharing. > > I think of drums as being generally *before* then, and what are cylinders > that differs from drums? But it *does* actually make sense to have a > generic term for that class of storage; we just didn't have enough > examples to need it, and "DASD" sounds stupid :-), and as an IBM mainframe > term wasn't something we wanted to emulate. > > I suppose we're getting a bit far off-topic, but thanks for the stroll > down memory lane! > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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