Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
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>I've got 6 or so of Honeywell terminals that look a lot like those. Mine
>have some POS-app dedicated keys on them, I know, so mine are a little
>different than yours. I haven't messed with them much.
>
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>http://www.freaknet.org/~martin/FreakNet/honey.html
>
Now *that* brings back memories.
My first "real" programming job in the late 1970's was writing
code in Coral and assembler for Honeywell Level 6 systems running
GCOS MOD 400.
The choice of Coral was probably a mistake - it was driven by a
group of programmers who had recently arrived from Plessey and who
wanted something higher level than assembler that wasn't COBOL.
Unfortunately, Honeywell's Coral compiler had been provided as a
checklist item so that Honeywell could bid on UK government contracts
(at a time when it was mandatory to have support for Coral) and,
consequently, it just wasn't expected that anyone would actually
*use* it.
GCOS MOD 400 was also quite a nice system to use and, when I
later started to use UNIX it was interesting to see the similarities
(and the differences) apart from the obvious common antecedent of
Multics, I believe that Honewell had also borrowed a few ideas from
UNIX as it had evolved during the 1970's - I seem to recall (possibly
wrongly) that the MOD 400 editor was very similar to the UNIX "ed".
Anyone else ever use a Level 6?
Received on Sat Nov 02 2002 - 19:04:16 GMT