27 May
2020
27 May
'20
7:02 a.m.
On 5/26/20 9:24 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 5/26/2020 1:35 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
You seem to place very high needs on COBOL. Most early mainframes had
less memory than the home computers mentioned here. I developed COBOL
programs on an LSI-11/02 with 28KW of memory and 4 RX02 8" floppies.
bill
Of course, COBOL is even older and also had
structures.
Not everybody had access to power computing, some had to make do with
a PDP 7 and write Unix.