From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 06:48:24 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911220646030.33542@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Clem Cole wrote:
> The cat was already out and poking around with the publishing of: IBM
> 360 Principles of Operation, DOC A22-6821-0. The APL version of spec
> just gave it more area to roam.
Yeah, I know about PrincOps; it went into excruciating detail, leading to
the observation that IBM manuals were designed to impress rather than
inform...
-- Dave
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2019-11-15 21:54 dave
2019-11-15 22:26 ` krewat
2019-11-15 22:42 ` dave
2019-11-16 7:23 ` peter
2019-11-16 16:25 ` clemc
2019-11-17 5:14 ` dave
2019-11-18 16:42 ` clemc
2019-11-18 18:45 ` bakul
2019-11-18 19:19 ` clemc
2019-11-19 20:21 ` peter
2019-11-19 23:17 ` cym224
2019-11-21 19:48 ` dave [this message]
2019-11-15 23:19 ` clemc
2019-11-15 23:47 ` krewat
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