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Article #1622Re: What is a Mainframe?
From: Panos Tsirigotis
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 21:09
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 21:09
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In article <279@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) writes: > ... >* As for meaningful acronyms, tell us about FURPUR. >heck, I wish someone could tell _me_ about it! :-( FURPUR = File Utility Routines/Program Utility Routines I think that File implied data file and Program implied program file (they were not the same thing; a program file was like a directory). Something else now: In the discussion about the PDP-20 I noticed several similarities in the PDP-20 architecture and the one of the Univac/Sperry/UniSys 1100 series (36 bit instructions, indirection bit, execute instruction, subroutine call etc.) Is that a coincidence ? Panos Tsirigotis ---------------------------------------------------- | Email address: panos@boulder.colorado.edu | ----------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!boulder!tigger!panos From: panos@tigger.colorado.edu (Panos Tsirigotis) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe? Message-ID: <10205@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 21 Jul 89 21:09:12 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: panos@tigger.colorado.edu (Panos Tsirigotis) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 24