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: 103376,2353cc2ebdf8fc4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-05 11:33:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C851D7E.7186D5E1@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes References: <3C84057E.8020504@users.sf.net> <3C84FF36.9090209@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 19:33:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1015356809 66.75.151.160 (Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:33:29 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:33:29 PST Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20820 Date: 2002-03-05T19:33:29+00:00 List-Id: "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. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. To the user, everything works just as expected, assuming the user's expectations are correct.