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From: Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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Dick Hendrickson wrote:
> On 6/7/10 7:35 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” ?
>>
>>
> I think it was the successor to CRT memories.  ;)
> 

Or mercury delay-lines.