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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: LA and the IBM 1130
Message-ID: <840@lzaz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 09:16:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 14 09:16:26 1987
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Keywords: errogenous zones
Summary: incomplete job stream
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In article <980@husc6.UUCP>, primer_b@husc4.harvard.edu (jeremy primer) writes:
> IBM etymology (c. 1960):
> 
> // XEQ PROGR L  2
> *LOCAL SUBA,SUBB,SUBC
> *NOCAL DEBUG
> 
> tells an IBM 1130 to load and XEQute the program PROGR, that  |
not with out a job card it don't
> the subroutines SUBA, SUBB, SUBC are not needed               |
> simultaneously, so they should be fetched from disk into the  | LOCAL
> Load On CALl area whenever they are called.  Remember, the    |
> core memory--made of core--is only 16K or 32K.  Overlay city. |
16k !!  32k !!!!!!!!
Boy you really had a big one! My high school had one of these dream machines.
The first personal computer, built in letter quality printer, built in hard
drive, came with it's own desk, 4k of core, and compiled fortran(talk about disk
activity).

GET AWAY FROM THAT EOJ BUTTON!!

					Maurice M. Burns, Esq.
					Squire of Gothos