Paolo, I'm sure I'm older than you! You're absolutely right. Abend was coined by the designers of the IBM 701. Mean time to failure on the early prototypes of that machine was only about three hours.
Paul M. Grant, PhD Principal, W2AGZ Technologies Visiting Scholar, Applied Physics, Stanford University EPRI Science Fellow (Retired) IBM Research Staff Member Emeritus w2agz at pacbell.net http://www.w2agz.com ? ? -----Original Message----- From: pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org [mailto:pw_forum-boun...@pwscf.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Giannozzi Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:50 PM To: PWSCF Forum Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] bands_FS.x and spin polarized metals On Dec 12, 2007, at 21:32 , Paul M. Grant wrote: > And sure enough, if you?re dumb and try anyway, it abends with a > read error > I am old enough to have seen card punchers in action, so the term "abend" is not unknown to me, but I guess younger people don't know that it is a shorthand for "abnormal end", on IBM mainframes... Paolo --- Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222 _______________________________________________ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum at pwscf.org http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum
