18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
11:40 p.m.
On 2/19/2015 12:21 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/18/2015 07:56 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
In the late 50's you just got color TV. I suspect nobody
thought of computers hooked up to that then.
I would not call the CHM 1401 a production
machine.
There might be a System/3 still in real service (at least there was
about four or five years ago).
The point is that COBOL, FORTRAN, Algol, etc. get a bad rap. Look what
they had to run on--you can't do that with C or several other more
contemporary languages. Which brings up the question "Do you design a
machine to run a language
or design a language to run on a machine?" That appears to have changed
over the last 30-40 years. Are we poorer for that?
I think so, with the advent of 8 bit computers.The problem is like
inflation, cheaper money or cheaper logic to bring down the standard
of what is needed logically in a system.
The financial world didn't seem to mind decimal
machines. Are we going
to make a dollar (or Euro) equal to 128 cents to accommodate radix-2
machines?
The Euro is 1.12345% over the the US Dollar. Looks like REAL to me.
--Chuck
Ben.