From: "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 23:47:35 +1000
Date: 2010-06-09T23:47:35+10:00 [thread overview]
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"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote in message
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| In <4c0e282d$0$56573$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 06/08/2010
| at 09:23 PM, "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au> said:
|
| >Drum memories were't successor to anything.
|
| That part may be true.
|
| >They were intended as a cheap but fast mass-storage device.
|
| ROTF,LMAO. They were expensive and small. They were used as the main
| memories in, e.g., UNIVAC 1103, IBM 650.
They were a cheap but fast random access mass-storage device,
providing the equivalent storage of 256 mercury delay lines
at a fraction of the cost and at a fraction of the electronics.
The control for the DEUCE drum required but 12 electronic units,
whereas the associated electronics for 256 delay lines would have
required 256 units, and several rooms to house them,
along with 256 receivers and 256 transmitters.
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2010-04-04 4:46 Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-04-04 5:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-06 15:04 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-04-04 7:10 ` Pascal Obry
2010-04-04 18:24 ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-04-06 9:52 ` Peter Hermann
2010-04-07 20:08 ` Denis McMahon
2010-04-04 20:53 ` Andrea Taverna
2010-04-13 20:31 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-04-14 16:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-04-14 19:18 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-04-04 23:41 ` Jerry
2010-04-05 0:29 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-04-05 9:09 ` mockturtle
2010-04-05 11:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-05 11:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-05 16:44 ` Keith Thompson
2010-04-06 14:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-06 16:39 ` Warren
2010-04-06 17:53 ` Sebastian Hanigk
2010-04-06 20:45 ` Warren
2010-04-07 9:17 ` MRE
2010-04-08 10:10 ` Ken Thomas
2010-04-08 16:40 ` Warren
2010-04-08 18:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-08 20:13 ` Charmed Snark
2010-04-06 19:53 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-06 21:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-07 4:25 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-07 6:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-07 12:53 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-07 16:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-07 17:05 ` Keith Thompson
2010-04-07 19:41 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-07 2:03 ` BrianG
2010-04-07 9:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-08 0:20 ` BrianG
2010-04-08 2:29 ` Robert A Duff
2010-04-08 7:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-14 21:34 ` Florian Weimer
2010-04-05 20:51 ` none
2010-04-06 1:18 ` robin
2010-04-06 12:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-06 15:30 ` robin
2010-04-06 23:44 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-14 9:32 ` robin
2010-04-14 12:12 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-14 15:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-15 4:15 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-15 10:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-15 15:10 ` robin
2010-04-15 22:06 ` Nomen Nescio
2010-04-16 0:02 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-17 8:43 ` robin
2010-04-18 17:15 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-22 1:39 ` robin
2010-04-22 9:59 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-22 12:49 ` Gary L. Scott
2010-04-22 13:20 ` robin
2010-05-14 10:50 ` robin
2010-05-16 1:23 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-05-17 9:23 ` robin
2010-05-17 10:05 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-05-17 10:09 ` robin
2010-05-17 15:57 ` robin
2010-05-19 14:55 ` Richard Harter
2010-04-07 19:27 ` Simon Wright
2010-04-08 2:01 ` robin
2010-04-08 15:27 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-14 9:27 ` robin
2010-04-15 10:02 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-23 7:29 ` robin
2010-04-23 16:14 ` J. Clarke
2010-04-23 21:51 ` Peter Flass
2010-04-23 23:25 ` Sjouke Burry
2010-04-24 0:18 ` Gary L. Scott
2010-04-24 1:05 ` Richard Maine
2010-04-24 0:23 ` Dick Hendrickson
2010-04-24 0:30 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2010-04-26 15:28 ` Warren
2010-04-25 2:43 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-04-16 11:04 ` sjw
2010-04-18 17:26 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-05 10:58 ` robin
2010-06-06 4:25 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-06 14:53 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2010-06-06 15:15 ` J. Clarke
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2010-06-07 13:23 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-07 18:50 ` George Orwell
2010-06-08 1:21 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-08 12:26 ` Peter Hermann
2010-06-06 17:10 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2010-06-06 19:17 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-08 6:27 ` James J. Weinkam
2010-06-08 7:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-08 10:43 ` Peter Flass
2010-06-08 10:23 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-08 12:03 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2010-06-07 9:39 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-06 17:16 ` Martin Krischik
2010-06-06 18:33 ` Non scrivetemi
2010-06-06 15:12 ` robin
2010-06-07 9:45 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-08 11:10 ` robin
2010-06-09 10:48 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-09 23:59 ` robin
2010-06-10 10:06 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-10 10:52 ` robin
2010-06-10 13:49 ` Richard Harter
2010-06-06 15:19 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-06 16:51 ` Simon Wright
2010-06-06 17:51 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-07 9:38 ` robin
2010-06-08 10:07 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-10 10:54 ` robin
2010-06-07 9:41 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-06 17:15 ` Martin Krischik
2010-06-06 19:12 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-06 20:39 ` John B. Matthews
2010-06-07 0:17 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-07 6:02 ` Martin Krischik
2010-06-06 23:01 ` Gib Bogle
2010-06-07 0:18 ` J. Clarke
2010-06-07 5:34 ` Martin Krischik
2010-06-07 9:48 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-07 10:36 ` Peter Flass
2010-06-07 16:18 ` Fritz Wuehler
2010-06-07 22:03 ` Peter Flass
2010-06-07 22:00 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2010-06-08 1:16 ` Shmuel Metz
2010-06-07 5:31 ` Martin Krischik
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2010-06-07 10:40 ` Peter Flass
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2010-06-07 21:04 ` Gib Bogle
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2010-06-08 10:11 ` Shmuel Metz
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2010-06-08 11:16 ` robin
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2010-06-07 21:57 ` Peter Flass
2010-06-08 10:02 ` Shmuel Metz
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