27 Mar
2007
27 Mar
'07
11:21 p.m.
On 27 Mar 2007 at 16:00, Courtney, Lee wrote:
How did newer versions of the language handle
deprecation of the sense
switch - error, warning, ignore?
There's no reason why they can't be supported if you don't have
"real" sense switches. As I mentioned in a later message, sense
switches were supported on the CDC 6000 systems and there are no
sense switches, go buttons or even blinking lights that the operator
can get to after deadstart. However, the operator's console had
commands n.ONSW,x and n.OFFSW,x which toggled bits in a location
in low memory within control point "n"'s RA, which corresponded to
sense switches. I also believe that SCOPE and KRONOS/MACE both had
job control statements to do the same.
Cheers,
Chuck