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-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!usenetcore.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!216.40.28.145.MISMATCH!novia!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.lerostechnologies!news.posted.lerostechnologies.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:26:49 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:11:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0cc11c$0$56569$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Organization: Atid/2 X-CompuServe-Customer: Yes X-Coriate: interspeed.co.nz X-Ecrate: tanandtanlawyers.com X-Pose: George Cox X-Punge: Micro$oft X-Sanguinate: The MVS Guy X-Terminate: SPA(GIS) X-Tinguish: Mark Griffith X-Treme: C&C,DWS X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Message-ID: <4c0e175d$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v3.00.11.18 BETA/60 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.103.155.46 X-Trace: sv3-U2jKrSX2LhdVKJbssnUo9ZqZ3AJ7Do28Zw9RuFIFMcpNwPtwc4H/uNAE4AQjobIJ6spQvX5uYV5/z2+!yXOEHwP5yAPgIA1wmmw7BrmM3jPm+MYYNMrEBLKiyRpLrQkAnTzfeH+0YZNUygbIHnhGpz2sL9UV!KyLXuejaV5zyQ/hMMY9AlOPaFE8Z30wmrg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2841 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11500 comp.lang.fortran:24251 comp.lang.pl1:1437 Date: 2010-06-08T06:11:41-04:00 List-Id: In , on 06/07/2010 at 10:06 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt said: >The IBM 2301 and 2303 were around for the S/370 days, but the popular >swap device for S/370 was the 2305 fixed head disk. Popular? Even a model 2[1] was fairly expensive, and it only had 10% of the capacity of a 3330-1 moving-head disk drive. [1] The 2305-2 had twice the capacity and half the speed of the 2305-1. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org