Re: Letter to US Sen. Byron Dorgan re unpaid overtime

From: Jos A. Horsmeier (j.a.horsmeier_at_wanadoo.nl)
Date: 01/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:36:51 +0100

"Richard Heathfield" <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message news:bt20p1$3ge$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> Edward G. Nilges wrote:

> > However, the IBM 1401 Fortran compiler (and similar products of its
> > era designed by IBM for mid and small range users of the IBM 1401, the
> > IBM 360 models 20 and 30, the IBM 1130 and similar systems) would not
> > have been feasible had it generated code in the manner of compilers
> > for big iron. Again, it bought do-ability by trading efficiency for
> > storage.
>
> Your "knowledge" of the 1401 has been brought into serious question
> elsethread. I'd be interested to see your reaction to that.

Never mind Edward's 1401 'knowledge' (mind the quotes). The 360 was a bit
before my time; I came in during the early 370s, but the 360 was never,
ever meant to be a machine for the 'small and mid range users'. These
machine were (in those days) the state of the art mainframe monsters.
The KLM (Dutch Airlines) relied on them, Shell relied on them and many
scientific institutions were investigating the 'infinite' (quotes again)
possibilities of those huge humming boxes. The 1130 on the other hand
wasn't meant for ADP (Administrative Data Processing), it was a lean
and mean little thing meant for digital processing, closely coupled
with DAC like machines (Digital Analog Computers) like the (a bit later)
DEC Minc machines (*)

Edward Nilges is completely nuts; he mixes up googled-up knowledge with
his own imagination while in the mean time producing crap of code and a
whole shebang of nonsense in this group. I'm planning to buy his book,
if it ever sees the light, just for good laughs ...

happy New Year,

Jos

(*) my old father again, reading over my shoulder and enjoying my wine.

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