^X (was: an odd question

From: Kent Borg <kentborg_at_borg.org>
Date: Fri Aug 10 08:18:13 2001

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:13:20PM -0600, Mark Green wrote:
> The CDC Cyber series had many different character sets, which was a
> major pain in the ass for anyone maintaining software for them. I
> spent several years working on the Pascal compiler for the CDC
> machines (the orignal implementation from ETH).

Ah, back at the U of Minn, we used CDC mainframes for our programming
classes. I tried using as much lower case as the Pascal books did,
and that did not make things happy.


-kb, the Kent who also once opened a comment before column 76 and
didn't close another comment before column 76 for many lines, causing
the intervening lines to be silently dropped.


P.S. Circa 1980 we even did one assignment on a punch card machine.
The physical reader was a relatively svelt machine (at least compared
to the central beasts we students could not touch), and it talked to
an impressive looking, floppy-equipped PDP-11/34, bootstrapped via the
front panel and everything. (Did they call the whole thing a Remote
Job Entry Station?) What *was* that record separator card? A 6-7-8
overpunch? What was the job separator card??
Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 08:18:13 BST