10 Sep
2022
10 Sep
'22
3:44 a.m.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Bakul Shah wrote:
And yet according to Wilner's article "the
B1700 appears to require less
than half the memory needed by byte-oriented systems to represent
programs. Comparisons with word-oriented systems are even more
favorable."
The Burroughs series were beautiful machines; the hardware ran native
ALGOL (and thus were perfect); my favourite "B" still remains the B1500.
Things went downhill after the unholy alliance betwixt M$ and Inhell...
Figure 9 shows sample sizes for Cobol, Fortran and RPG
II programs
comparing B1700 code sizes with other systems. I was surprised to
see this but didn't look further.
COBOL? FORTRAN? RPG? Those are all swear words to me :-)
-- Dave