On 16 Aug 2004, at 14:41, Jack Campin wrote:
The odd thing is, here am I, more than 30 years on, sitting at
a Power Mac 9600/200 with 384Mb of memory - whereas the 1130 had
32Kb, I think, and presumably ran at a few thousand instructions
per second - but despite having a few gigabytes of software u
Bernard Hill wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Campin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The odd thing is, here am I, more than 30 years on, sitting at
a Power Mac 9600/200 with 384Mb of memory - whereas the 1130 had
32Kb, I think, and presumably ran at a few thousand instructions
per second -
Jack Campin wrote:
> The odd thing is, here am I, more than 30 years on, sitting at
> a Power Mac 9600/200 with 384Mb of memory - whereas the 1130 had
> 32Kb, I think, and presumably ran at a few thousand instructions
> per second - but despite having a few gigabytes of software under
> the table
I use the G++ GNU product. In fact I think they have two
FORTRAN products. I've been thinking of writing an abc2abc
clone in FORTRAN just to play around.
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There are lots of Fortran compilers (both open source and payware) for
the Mac under OS X. See
http://hpc.sourceforge.net
Unfortunately OS X won't run on the 9600...
wil
Bernard Hill wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Campin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The odd thing is, here am I, more
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Campin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The odd thing is, here am I, more than 30 years on, sitting at
a Power Mac 9600/200 with 384Mb of memory - whereas the 1130 had
32Kb, I think, and presumably ran at a few thousand instructions
per second - but despite having a
>>> How many computer users nowadays have ever seen or used
>>> a punch card? I have a couple in a box as souvenirs.
>>> That 72 is especially bizarre. How many people these days
>>> could even tell you where that strange number comes from?
>> >But lots of software does it.
>> I used the colum
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Richard Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
I used the columns after 72 for sequence numbers so I could
use the sorter to put a deck of cards back in order if
(when) I dropped them. Up to 72, I used for FORTRAN code.
lol ... and on a good day I could get two or thr
Randall J Elzinga wrote:
(lots of interesting things and a few *very* nice links)
Steve Wyrick wrote:
(even more interesting info)
Just a belated thank you to Randall and Steve for their help, and in
case somebody missed the Scott Skinner site Randall mentioned:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/
