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Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 28 Sep 2001 21:28:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ray Sanders writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Wayne Sardullo writes:
> > > Thats a truely interesting angle Larry. I always thought that Mac's and PC's
> > > weren't REAL computers but, toys for the folks who didn't know how to use real
> > > systems like Unix/Linux ;)
> >
> > I'll see your UNIX and raise you S/390... (Can you program in 370/BAL)?
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> ummm.. yes, I cut my teeth on 360/BAL then went promptly into 370/BAL
> and C.
C??? that's not a proper MF language. PL/S (where you get to write your own
I/O)... What, did you work somewhere OTHER than IBM??
> Do you remember what a POO was and what you used a green card for ?
> (eventually replaced by the yellow card IIRC).
Poo, I forget what POO was....
but my yellow card got pretty tattered from looking things up. I actually
had a laminated one but it didn't work out. I had one I reduced on the
copier so I could keep it in my pocket when I went to meetings.
Please note I am not disparaging C, just running it on 390... I actually
LIKE C, sort of.
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| (...) POO .. 'Principles of Operation' probably with some subtitle about System/370. The book that was the definitive reference for the machine instruction set and registers. My memory implies that it had a butterscotch color cover. I had several (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) ummm.. yes, I cut my teeth on 360/BAL then went promptly into 370/BAL and C. Do you remember what a POO was and what you used a green card for ? (eventually replaced by the yellow card IIRC). Ray (still has a box of 5081 cards somewhere) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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