Re: Newbie question on table design.
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 16:17:45 GMT
Message-ID: <JWn_h.33295$M.15871_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
-CELKO- wrote:
> You did COBOL on a CDC? Me, too!~
Nope - but I hacked the COBOL compiler though when our corporate copy deck exceeded 2^17 bytes. I was a Systems Programmer and the CDC 12 bit PPU's only had an 18 bit accumulator - small matter of a (pointless) signed compare on a cache read vs disk io check caused compiles to blow out from 2 secs to 3 hours (elapsed).
> Yes, but it discovered large data sets from the start since it was a
> scientific machine. Ever see a data cell machine?
We used to crank out ore reserve calcs using Fortran and FP while the accountants crunched beans using COBOL and BCD.
The former took weeks but as I recall it (fondly) it used to punch out huge HUGE volumes of work. Of course it didn't have pesky keyboards to scan or long interrupt vector chains to pull it down.
Cheers Frank. Received on Thu May 03 2007 - 18:17:45 CEST