26 Feb
2005
26 Feb
'05
3:04 p.m.
Yes, but,...
In FORTRAN, columns 73 - 80 are reserved for housekeeping, such as
resequencing dropped decks.
THerefore, the information content in FORTRAN could be said to be 72 bytes
per card, NOT 80.
28 Feb
28 Feb
6:22 p.m.
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 08:47 +0100, Nico de Jong wrote:
JCL too. It had something to do with how the 701(!) read in data, into
two 36-bit words... I think most S/360 languages did it this way.
Some big guy in S/360 development mentioned this in the System/360 talk
at CHM - video is (was?) availible at computerhistory.org.
He said it during a slide with the heading "JCL - worst language
ever" :)
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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>
1 Mar
1 Mar
5:48 a.m.
From: "Tore S Bekkedal" <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>
>
> That was the same for IBM (DOS) Assembler, Cobol (73-80) and RPG-II
(column
Possibly for OS/360 (which I never used), but certainly not for DOS. When I
was an operator, we used to turn JCL cards around, so we could see cards
like
// EXEC TAPEDUMP TNIRP CEXE //
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