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Article #3466IBM 1130 (was Re: musical processing)
From: jo... John Shipman
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 1990 21:58
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 1990 21:58
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Tim McGuire (mcg...@cs.tamu.edu) writes: +-- | Anyone else have any good music stories, or adventures | with the ol' 1130? +-- In the mid-seventies, IBM brought out an early desktop computer called the 5100. It had a one-line display with room for about 24 characters. A toggle switch selected one of two languages, BASIC and APL. The APL was appallingly slow---to generate a random permutation of the first five natural numbers, and then sort it, took several seconds---but it was very solid. Years later I heard a rumor that explained how they could generate a solid new APL implementation in such a short time. The 5100 used the IBM 1130 instruction set as its internal micro-machine! So its implementation had the robustness that comes from many years of being tortured by canny young programmers in small colleges all over the country. -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/jo...@jupiter.nmt.edu ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!nmt.edu!john From: jo...@nmt.edu (John Shipman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: IBM 1130 (was Re: musical processing) Keywords: 1130 5100 Message-ID: <1990Jul14.215803.26339@nmt.edu> Date: 14 Jul 90 21:58:03 GMT References: <1647@yenta.alb.nm.us> <6572@helios.TAMU.EDU> Distribution: alt Organization: Zoological Data Processing Lines: 25 Posted: Sat Jul 14 22:58:03 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit