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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: glen herrmannsfeldt Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: iv0FLp+Uhvv05NzXKWDP0Q.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-2-686 (i686)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11455 comp.lang.fortran:24177 comp.lang.pl1:1417 Date: 2010-06-07T22:06:43+00:00 List-Id: In comp.lang.fortran Peter Flass wrote: (snip) > That's it. I believe it was an IBM 704, although probably other old > computers used them also. Well, Fortran I on the 704 has the READ DRUM and WRITE DRUM statements. (That should get it back to Fortran, anyway.) > Drums were popular as storage on systems, > even with disks, because, being head per track, they were much faster. > They were often used as a swap medium. 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. The 2xxx devices are from the S/360 generation, where 3xxx numbering was used with S/370. > This is a little far afield for these three NGs. -- glen