[Self-interest] slow systems (was: OurSelf trial nowwithout invite!)

[David Harris]

Paul --

Those were great machines.  I never saw one.  IBM 360/145 with APL
microcode at UVic while I was there.  We had a lots of fun on their
Selectic terminals with APL type-balls installed.  I wrote a one-liner
Simplex Method LU Decomposition in APL, and a two-liner Tic-Tac-Toe.

Did you hear about Snibble?  It was a Forth-like language with a simple
priority parser on top so that it had infix notation, and I had
correspondence with someone at Imperial College about it in the early 70s.


David


On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 9:30 AM Paul Chapman <paul at igblan.free-online.co.uk>
wrote:

> David,
>
> PS. This appeared on my Twitter today: film of December 3rd 1968
> announcement of CDC 7600. This is the computer I was using at Imperial
> College.
> https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll91:52
>
> PPS. I’d never heard the terms IDE, VM or bytecode when I wrote DE and
> I-APL, hence my awkward terminology.
>
> Cheers, Paul
>
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