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In article <ESH.92Aug20140859@boron.tekbspa.com> esh@boron.tekbspa.com (Edward S. Hirgelt) writes:
 > On 19 Aug 92 20:56:11 GMT,
 > rro@cs.ColoState.EDU (Rod Oldehoeft) said:
 > Rod>                                   The oldest reference I
 > Rod> have for this particular term is Gries' 1971 book, where
 > Rod> the reference is:
 > 
 > I'm not sure of the exact first use, but I first encountered ``dope
 > vector'' in reading the PL/I reference manuals for the OS 360 in late
 > 1969. Gries was at that time pretty IBM oriented so his use may have
 > derived from the same PL/I documentation. PL/I had already been around
 > for a while in 1969 so the terminology is prabably older. 
 > 
Certainly.  In front of me I have K. Sattley and P. Z. Ingerman, The
Allocation of Storage for Arrays in Algol-60, University of Pennsylvania
Report, AFOSR-TN-60-1320, November 1960.  On page 3 they say:
	Stored along with the elements of an array will be a "dope vector"
	containing the information necessary to reference the array (the
	parameters of the storage-mapping function).
But I do not know whether *that* is the first use.
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