On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:29:27 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote:
>
>Right you are .... IIRC, Stanford ..
>
Or, was that the "SLAC Mods", the predecessor of Assembler H?
>Kind Regards
>
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>
>>>IBM did actually release PL/X (or maybe it was called PL/370 back
>>>then?)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>No:
>> BSL
>> PL/S (two versions)
>> PL/8
>> PL/AS
>> PL/X
>>
>>There was a PL/360, but that was a crude assembler with
>>sort-of-kind-of Algol syntax and not from IBM. I think that there was
>>another PL/* compiler in the sequence, but it wasn't PL/370.
>>
>>
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>Are you thinking perhaps of PL/C, the WATFIV-like PL/1 processor from
>Cornell U. ??
>
GIYF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL360
And the RAND leak:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PL/S
The legend I heard was that RAND handed out tapes at a SHARE. IBM
asserted its IP rights and demanded their recall.
-- gil
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