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From: david@dhw68k.UUCP
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Subject: Re: LA and the IBM 1130
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 20:31:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 20:31:10 1987
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Keywords: errogenous zones
Summary: 16K words on an 1130 was BIG!
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In article <980@husc6.UUCP>, primer_b@husc4.harvard.edu (jeremy primer) writes:
> [...]
>IBM etymology (c. 1960):
>
> // XEQ PROGR L  2
> *LOCAL SUBA,SUBB,SUBC
> *NOCAL DEBUG
> 
> tells an IBM 1130 to load and XEQute the program PROGR, that  |
> the subroutines SUBA, SUBB, SUBC are not needed               |
> simultaneously, so they should be fetched from disk into the  | LOCAL
> Load On CALl area whenever they are called.  Remember, the    |
> core memory--made of core--is only 16K or 32K.  Overlay city. |

The 1130 I worked on (my first exposure to computers -- probably warped
my mind permanently!  :-) ) had only 8K (16-bit words, of course)....
I remember getting the source for the 1130 Macro Assembler (Mod 10, I
think); I couldn't assemble it -- a friend of mine found an 1130 with
the unbelievably large core size of 32K and managed to assemble it.  (I
still have the listing...!)

(You know, in many ways, it was really a "personal computer" -- single-
user, and all that.  Somehow, though, I like the computer I'm using now
a LOT better though....)

Anyone out there know what sort of relationship existed between the
1130 and the 360/44?  (From what I have seen in books, it looked as if
the /44 might have been designed to wean 1130 users to the s/360.  I
believe that USC ("C" == "California", not "Carolina") had one....)

david
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