UNIX Arcana [was Re: Perl (or Unix vs. MS, actually) ]

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Aug 22 13:06:34 EDT 2002


True, a 12 bit interger was all we needed :-). Sometimes we pared them to 
24 bits .
BTW: The mainframe was a Burroughs 3700, and the communications code was 
all written in COBOL, but with the COBOL version of asms :-)
On 22 Aug 2002 at 10:31, Jon Hall wrote:

> 
> gaf at blu.org said:
> > All this in 4K memory.
> 
> Yeah, but Burger King was not selling as many hamburgers back in those days. :-)
> 
> md
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