18 Jul
2024
18 Jul
'24
6:16 p.m.
Yeah, I wasn't specific enough.
The ownership of the model 67 changed to the State of NJ, but it was
operated and present at Princeton, until replaced by a 370/158, which in
turn changed owners back to Princeton in 75.
What OS did you use on the 67?
On the /67 I used TSS with a free account they gave me for being in a
local computer club. On the /91 I mostly used the free stuff but one
summer in the early 70s I had a job speeding up an Ecom professor's
Fortran model. Compiling it with Fortran H rather than G, and adjusting
an assembler routine that managed an external file not to open and close
the file on every call helped a lot.
Paul Hilfinger had a long career at UC Berkeley and is easy to find if you
want to ask him if he has any of his old papers.
R's,
John
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:58 PM John Levine <johnl(a)taugh.com> wrote:
> It appears that Tom Lyon <pugs78(a)gmail.com> said:
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>> Jonathan - awesome!
>> Some Princeton timing: the 360/67 arrived in 1967, but was replaced in the
>> summer of 1969 by the 360/91.
>
> No, the /67 and /91 were there at the same time. I used them both in high
> school.
> I graduated in 1971 so that must have been 1969 to 71, and when I left I'm
> pretty
> sure both were still there.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>
>> BWK must've got started on the 7094 that preceded the 67, but since it was
>> FORTRAN the port wasn't hard.
>> Now I wonder what Paul Hilfinger did and whether it was still FORTRAN.
>>
>> I graduated in 1978, ROFF usage was still going strong!
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 09:45:57PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 at 1:51 PM, segaloco <
>>> segaloco(a)protonmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just sharing a copy of the Roff Manual that I had forgotten I
> scanned a little while back:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://archive.org/details/roff_manual