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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in   collection of bits?
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 07:44:57 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2209100734520.71191@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2BED78B-3E59-429E-B4A3-FB2ED0E2B577@iitbombay.org>

On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Bakul Shah wrote:

> And yet according to Wilner's article "the B1700 appears to require less 
> than half the memory needed by byte-oriented systems to represent 
> programs. Comparisons with word-oriented systems are even more 
> favorable."

The Burroughs series were beautiful machines; the hardware ran native
ALGOL (and thus were perfect); my favourite "B" still remains the B1500.

Things went downhill after the unholy alliance betwixt M$ and Inhell...

> Figure 9 shows sample sizes for Cobol, Fortran and RPG II programs
> comparing B1700 code sizes with other systems. I was surprised to
> see this but didn't look further.

COBOL?  FORTRAN?  RPG?  Those are all swear words to me :-)

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-09 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-09 19:39 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-09-09 20:27 ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-09 21:12   ` Henry Bent
2022-09-09 21:44   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2022-09-10  1:49     ` [TUHS] Obscene languages (was: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-09-11 13:30 [TUHS] Re: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits? Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-11 15:08 ` John Cowan
2022-09-11 15:30 ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-11 15:45   ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-11 16:20     ` Steve Nickolas
2022-09-09 18:46 Norman Wilson
2022-09-10  1:35 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-09 17:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-09  1:33 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-09  2:12 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-13 14:23   ` John Foust via TUHS
2022-09-09  2:45 ` George Michaelson
2022-09-16  5:55 ` Marc Donner
2022-09-08 21:16 Noel Chiappa
2022-09-08 21:24 ` Dan Halbert
2022-09-08 18:20 Noel Chiappa
2022-09-08 19:28 ` Jim Capp
2022-09-08 16:51 [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2022-09-08 16:56 ` [TUHS] " Andrew Hume
2022-09-08 17:28 ` Dan Halbert
2022-09-09  0:00   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-09-09 15:49     ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-09 18:44       ` Bakul Shah

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