> On Jun 27, 2015, at 12:23, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > > My first-computer love was the IBM 650 though. I went from that onto a > Remington Rand -> Sperry Univac -> Xerox career path, retiring from Xerox at > the end of 1998
Ah yes, the 650. I worked on one for a while as a subcontractor. The machine was loaded with almost everything except a printer [Ramac, floating point, index regs, tapes] and the outfit had its own languages - a better assembler than SOAP and an algebraic compiler called MAC that used up to 3 cards per line - exponent, main, and subscript so you had something like this: E 3 2 M z=x + y S j k For faster run times, we wrote a back end that took partially compiled [but not in machine language yet] and wrote an object tape in 709x machine language - one of my several early exposures to cross-compilers. — jt - j...@jt-mj.net Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
