jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) (01/13/87)
I was just wondering uh...are there any Burroughs mainframe users on the Net? Just curious. jack
lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (01/15/87)
In article <571@pbhyc.UUCP> jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) writes: >I was just wondering uh...are there any Burroughs mainframe users on the Net? >Just curious. Well, the answer must be no, since I haven't seen any articles with sequence number in the 72nd column. If you want *former* Burroughs mainframe users, you might get some. Okay, you guys, fess up. How many of you have seen a Pascal program with sequence numbers in the 72nd column? I have. I've written them. Shudder. When Burroughs bought System Development Corporation, a certain VP there said, "Okay, now SDC gets to drag Burroughs kicking and screaming into the 20th century." I can say that now because Burroughs doesn't exist anymore. Now that we're Unisys, we're #2. The question is, #2 at what? I don't know if we want to be #1 at everything #1 is #1 at. Larry Wall {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall
devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) (01/20/87)
In article <3789@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes: > When Burroughs bought System Development Corporation, a certain VP there > said, "Okay, now SDC gets to drag Burroughs kicking and screaming into > the 20th century." I can say that now because Burroughs doesn't exist > anymore. When I was at Burroughs' Distributed Systems Group I once made the comment, because we were proposing a radical alternative to the existing unwieldy Cobol-eating mainframes, that some day Burroughs would be known as "Burroughs -- A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of DSG". Guess who had the last laugh. 19th Century over the 20th by a score of 2 - 0... > Now that we're Unisys, we're #2. If you have a childish mind, you'll see the unintended double meaning. Bob Devine
sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (01/26/87)
In article <3789@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes: >In article <571@pbhyc.UUCP> jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) writes: >>I was just wondering uh...are there any Burroughs mainframe users on the Net? >>Just curious. > >Well, the answer must be no, since I haven't seen any articles with sequence >number in the 72nd column. > >If you want *former* Burroughs mainframe users, you might get some. Okay, >you guys, fess up. How many of you have seen a Pascal program with sequence >numbers in the 72nd column? I have. I've written them. Shudder. Hey!! They aren't the only ones you know... IBM's PascalVS (you know the 'official' Pascal for sys/370), while it doesn't REQUIRE Seq.Num.s, certainly requires that if you don't use them, you don't put anything else after col 72. And the latest version of that one came out just last summer!!! And you all thought we were moving forward... :-) S. John Banner ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!sbanner1 ccsjb@uvvm sbanner1@uvunix.UVIC.CDN #1 1121 Fort St. Victoria BC. Canada V8V 3K9
gupta@mas1.UUCP (02/04/87)
In article <124@vianet.UUCP>, Bob Devine writes: > ... > 19th Century over the 20th by a score of 2 - 0... > > Bob Devine And Bob, Don't forget Austin Research Center! The score is 3 - 0. I wonder where those people are. -- Yogesh Gupta { ihnp4!mas1!gupta } Measurex Automation Systems ^ This is a "one"