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Article #625619Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:26
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:26
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On 2018-08-12, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-08-11, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:51:18 +0000, Huge wrote: >> >>> On 2018-08-10, Bill Findlay <findl...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > [39 lines snipped] > >>>> There will be a talk on ICL 1900 Series resurrection next month: >>>> >>>> Title: ICL 1900 Software Recovery Speaker: Bill Gallagher, Delwyn >>>> Holroyd & Brian Spoor Date: Thursday 20th September 2018 Time: 14:30 >>>> Location: BCS, 5 Southampton St, London WC2E 7HA > > SFPBA. Can't go. Why is it that events on my otherwise sparse calender > tend to cluster together? I once heard a saying: "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." Too bad it's totally wrong. > I learned RPG2 [gag, spit, cough] for a project at Associated Televison > to migrate their payroll from a 1900 Autocoder system to a 2903 RPG2 > [nausea] one. I went on a 2 week course at ICL to learn RPG2 [Ghod, I > think I'm actually going to vomit] for that. I learned RPG2 at the beginning of my career. My attitude was a bit more conciliatory: I found it pretty good at doing what it wasn intended to do, i.e. generate report programs (although that 1P indicator nonsense obviously came from someone who never learned how to properly handle page overflows). The one that made me gag was RPG3. That's when IBM forgot what RPG stood for and started writing screen-based interactive programs with it. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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