Barry, My experience with PL/1 wasnt so good. In the 70's and 80's it was pretty CPU intensive, i was on a 370/158 OS/VS2/HASP ...then later VSE on a 4381 , PL/1 probably is much better with the faster machines.
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Barry Merrill <ba...@mxg.com> wrote: > State Farm, in 1973, was completely dependent on AUTOCODER which > was then running on 360/30s and 360/40s in the 25 regional offices, > while the new "Real Time" replacement application was still being > created (in PL/1). When the "Real Time" system ultimately failed, > the next iteration was called "DELTA" as in "Drop Everything, > Let's Try Again). > > Those AUTOCODER compiles required very long run times and were CPU > hogs on the home office 360/165 machines, so a team was assembled > to rewrite the compiler in PL/1. > The end result was a massive reduction in the compile time. > But the team found on instance in which the IBM compiler generated > incorrect code, and were going to fix that IBM error, but management > decided the team should generate the exact same code as the IBM > compiler, so they implemented their compiler to generate that same error. > > I was NOT a part of this team, but I think that at least one of that > team is a semi-frequent poster to this forum. > > Barry Merrill > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 9:12 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit > > In <8457a39f-5e00-40d7-9f52-3128d654d...@yahoo.com>, on 01/16/2012 > at 09:30 PM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> said: > >> Knew a guy 15 yrs a go made a lot of money still writing auto coder >> .... > > I might believe AUTOCODER. Would that be 1401, 1410, 7070[1] or 7080 > AUTOCODER? > > [1] By far the most sophisticated of the lot. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
