Prime Computers... (was: RE: [SunRescue] Re: OT: Advice)

[Ed Pate]

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But the OS was written in FORTRAN!  (At least 95% of the source code we had
was...)  :-o

Bad as it was, it was better than the COBOL.

I think I still have some of the manuals laying around somewhere in storage.

Ed

"Peter L. Wargo" wrote:

> On Sun, 6 May 2001, James Fogg wrote:
>
> > All I can say is that I have been "doin it" for 15 years (paid) and 15 years
> > before that too. I have outlived almost all of my employers (Proteon, a
> > division of Motorola, Prime Computer *geek points for anyone who remembers
> > them*). Most of the O/S's I learned (AOS/VS, PrimeOS, RSTS, etc) are dead. I
>
> Aaaagh!  May PrimeOS *stay* dead!  (No offense, but I *hated* the Prime I
> had to use back in '86...)
>
> FORTRAN on a Prime... Memories I am trying to have eradicated...
>
> -Pete
>
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