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"Paul D. Stachour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Paul D. Stachour
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Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:44:35 -0500
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>I (Paul Stachour)had written:
> >..l.
> >(I built a 1.2MB compiler in 1960 that ran in 88K and compiled
> >programs of size 20,000 symbols in 128k [ PL/S II for IBM OS/360])
>
Hal Hart Corrected me, saying:
> The 360 wasn't introduced until 1965.  I know because I was working
> as a summer trainee for IBM that summer.  I'm sure people inside IBM
> were working on s/w for it [long] before 1965, but 1960??
>
>       -- hh
>

And I agree.  Should have been "1970" instead of "1960".
Ugh. Wrong key. Ugh. 3 lashes with wet noodle. Ugh.
..Paul

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