"Piet van Oostrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Bart Ogryczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BO) wrote: > > >BO> Any system with 8-bit bytes, which would mean any system made after > >BO> 1965. I'm not aware of any Python implementation for UNIVAC, so I > >BO> wouldn't worry ;-) > > 1965? I worked with non-8-byte machines (CDC) until the beginning of the > 80's. :=( In fact in that time the institution where Guido worked also had such > a machine, but Python came later.
Those behemoths were EXPENSIVE - so it made a lot of sense to keep using them until the point that it became obvious even to an accountant that the maintenance cost was no longer worth it... Would actually not surprise me if there were still a few around, doing electricity accounts or something. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
