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Article #3472Re: IBM 1130 (was Re: musical processing)
From: mcg... Tim McGuire
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 15:23
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 15:23
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In article <1990Jul14.2...@nmt.edu> jo...@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes: >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. I remember the APL implementation on the 1130. You essentially had to use the 1130 as a "personal computer". It didn't make one very popular with the FORTRAN crowd who were used to batch processing. Anyone out there who actually used 1130 APL? Tim McGuire mcg...@cs.tamu.edu --- .sig under construction
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!mcguire From: mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: IBM 1130 (was Re: musical processing) Keywords: 1130 5100 APL Message-ID: <6662@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 18 Jul 90 15:23:29 GMT References: <1647@yenta.alb.nm.us> <6572@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Jul14.215803.26339@nmt.edu> Sender: use...@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: alt Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University Lines: 19 Posted: Wed Jul 18 16:23:29 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit