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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ef33c33c4f98bde1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: carr@falcon.si.com (carr_tom) Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510 Date: 1999/12/13 Message-ID: <38556510$1@news.si.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560253948 References: <383c6fed.458467@news.fiam.net> <81k67s$47l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <383DC86C.19A6F176@australia.boeing.com> <81m4m4$ci0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3845D4B4.98354460@mitre.org> <828n1c$8ir$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38482436.F6F36E5@mitre.org> <82ffqg$m7o$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38555F1D.FBA187A4@mitre.org> X-Trace: 13 Dec 1999 16:28:48 -0500, falcon.si.com Organization: Smiths Industries Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" writes: > While we are on the subject of the 370 architecture, another "art >form" was to program channel controllers. I remember one matrix >multiplying routine for the 360/370 series which used the paging >controller for the swap disks to transpose matrices. (Darn! What was >the name of the U. Michigan OS? Not MAD that was much earlier. Was it >MTDS?) Anyway, since we used drums instead of disks for swapping, the >code needed a bit of massaging, which was how I ran into it. >-- I remember Michigan Terminal System (MTS) from the 1970's. Was that the one you were thinking of? /Tom -- Thomas Peter Carr | I have a dream, ... carr_tom@si.com (Internet) | M L King Jr 08/28/63 616-241-8846 / 616-241-7533 FAX (Telephone) | Smiths Industries, MS 3D1; 3290 Patterson Ave SE; Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991