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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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On 6/7/2010 8:35 AM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:40:07 +0200, Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@yahoo.com>
> a écrit:
>> If you want to talk *really* old assemblers, look at SOAP. The
>> hardware had no core, only drum memory,
> What is a “drum memory” ?

Are you serious?

You remember those old Edison phonographs that used a wax cylinder? 
Well imagine that concept only with the cylinder coated with magnetic 
material instead of wax, and with a row (or several rows) of heads along 
its length.  Has most of the properties of a fixed-head disk except the 
unequal track lengths.