Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote:
> programming language".  Having used operating systems written in
> assembly language (anyone remember Honeywell's GCOS8/DPS8?), you
> would not want to go back there!  Using those systems I learned very
> quickly to save my edit session every few minutes (if not seconds),
> because it was not unusual for the system to crash between 1-5 times
> a day.

On the other hand, CP-V, running on the same honeywell hardware, also in
assembler, ran years without crashing. Indeed, I *never* saw it crashing
except when privledged users were mapping kernel memory structures into
their own address space to do things they weren't supposed to and hit a
race condition with other privledged users doing something similar
(which happened maybe once a year). I even had long compiles survive
power failures without a hiccup, thanks to the wonders of core memory.
:-)  Oh, well, there was the one time the system programmer
single-stepped an interrupt-off instruction in the kernel. That was
pretty amusing.

But this is getting really, really OT. 

  Id? Logon please!
  A603: Load module does not exist.

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Darren New 
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  To the user, everything works just as expected,
    assuming the user's expectations are correct.