Re: IBM and float decimal

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From: John W. Kennedy
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:10

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Peter Flass wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
> 
>> multicsfan wrote:
>>
>>> Float Decimal(63); was directly supported by the Multics hardware so 
>>> legal in Multics PL/1.  It was actually Decimal, not binary.
>>
>>
>>
>> And there was something on IBM mainframes, too. The PRPQ VSPC PL/I, 
>> perhaps, or Allan-Babcock's RUSH system, or both.
>>
>> And 360/20 PL/I, I think.
>>
> 
> Was there ever such a thing??? Never heard of it.

Yes. It was the /only/ non-RPG, non-Assembler language IBM ever supplied 
for the 360/20. Available on the DPS/360 operating system only.

I never worked with a 360/20, but in the 60's, my employer had jumped 
directly from a 402 to a 360/30. At one point, we seriously considered 
getting a 360/20 to take some of the still card-intensive load, so we 
ordered up a complete set of manuals. In the event, though, we didn't do it.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why can't he apply it to 
Windows?

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