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Re: OT: An Interesting Minute in Time
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John Clogg <[log in to unmask]>
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John Clogg <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:32:23 -0800
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Wayne Boyer wrote:

>Our language for this was SNOBOL.  Any SNOBOL fans
>out there?  One very powerful string handling language!
>
>Amazing what you can do via punch cards and 64kb.  But then again the CDC
was
>truely a 'big' computer!

Yes, I used SNOBOL in college.  By the way, the CDC machine (which one?) you
used probably had more than 64KB of memory.  CDC always expressed their
memory in words, which on the 6600 and related machines was 60 bits.  So 64k
words = 480k bytes.

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