From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,c9f2b97a84c48976 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-27 17:35:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!feeder.via.net!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.advocacy Subject: Re: Market pressures for more reliable software References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <1Wu_6.135353$%i7.90937578@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:31:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 993688317 24.7.82.199 (Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:31:57 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:31:57 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9175 comp.lang.java.programmer:79244 comp.lang.java.advocacy:22097 Date: 2001-06-28T00:31:57+00:00 List-Id: >The 360 used absolute addresses. To load you had to adjust all the >address references to account for where in RAM the program was loaded. >This greatly slowed down the process of getting a program started. IIRC in 1963 I was able to load and relocate on a CDC 1604 on the fly as data came in from the high-speed tape drive (92 mics/word or 46 mics/address, as I recall). So relocation time shouldn't have been a big problem for a 360.