Re: Soap - Was RPCs over HTTPS through the firewall

[Barney Wolff <barney () pit databus com>]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:17:23PM -0400, Dan Schlitt wrote:
> I guess I've become too old. When I hear SOAP mentioned in a computer
> context I think of the first programming language I ever used. I think
> that it stood for Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program. It was for an IBM
> machine the number of which I can't accurately recall but it had a
> rotating magnetic drum for memory. The optimization was intended to put
> the next instruction under the read head at the completion of the previous
> instruction. And you could use symbolic names! The folks in a richer
> division actually had core memory for there nearly identical machine.

IBM 650 - I still have the manuals.  The drum held 2000 words.
The core memory was called "immediate access memory" because it was so
fast - it had a cycle time of 96 usec.

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