Memory lane Re: Process control and such

[Bill Ricker]

> That's OK, when you get as old as I am, you forget what it was like to
> be that young!

I forget that I'm old ...

> Anyone remember RT-11,

I've got my 8" floppy somewhere, assuming Bob ever returned it 25
years ago.  That was a nice assembler!

> IBM DOS-26.2,

Do you mean DOS for the 360 (MVS predeceasor [sic]) or IBM PC-DOS aka
MS-DOS for the 8086 PC? If the later, it was PC-DOS 2.6.2 not 26.2.
Got the books somewhere.  Managed to avoid MVS ... preferred CMS. The
MVS at work has OpenVMS Unix shell now ... so I can tell the Mainframe
guys to cp this and ssh that !

> the Illiac-IV, or even CDC's NOS?

Missed those ...

But did use Fortran II on a PDP-11 that was pretending it was a PDP-8
[EDUSYSTEM], _after_ Fortran IV on a 360. Rebooted a PDP8 in a 5/5/16K
split partition instead of default 8/8/10 split, since my BASIC
program had too many comments to load in a 10kword partition. And used
every other accused write-only language except Icon/Snobol.

How about Systems House's "System 1022"? That was my first DBMS ...
Loved  their "expose' " ad that said it wasn't really a Relational DB
system, it was really an inverted file system that fooled you into
thinking it was Relational by duplicating all the features, but you
could tell it wasn't really Relational because it was fast?  (Yes, I
mean 1022 .. it was for DEC10, the successor System 1032 was the port
to the Vax many years later.)

> How about an IBM-1410?

I don't go back quite that far, but ...that was apparently a follow-on
to the classic 1401, the infinite wordlength packed-decimal machine. I
used a 1401 hardbound language manual to get two girlfriends through
the mandatory COBOL program in the Survey of languages class (which I
never took).  And I helped "install" the 1401 at The Computer Museum
Boston -- I bought Coke in glass from The Childrens Museum vending
machine and drank one so we'd have one full, one empty on the 1964
period desk in the exhibit (with NY Worlds Fair calendar on the wall).

Still looking for another Sinclair ZX-80 (white, not the ZX-81 black) ...

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Bill
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