Re: Soap - Was RPCs over HTTPS through the firewall

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

(Paul, this is really off-topic.  I won't be offended if you suppress it.)

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 10:20:15PM -0400, Bill Royds wrote:
> It was the IBM 650, which was also the machine the the orginal FORTRAN was
> witten for around 1957.

Well, no.  Fortran was written for the 704.  Somewhat later, the 650 got
Fortransit, which was a multi-step monstrosity whose first pass translated
to IT (Internal Translator), then from IT to SOAP, and then to 650 machine.
At each step the translator had to be loaded from cards, then the input,
with output punched on cards to be read back in after loading the next
phase's program.  Oh, and at one point in the process the control board
of the card reader had to be changed.

Did we mention that the 650 was a decimal machine, with the actual
representation being bi-quinary?  That's a bit for 0/5 and four more
bits for 1-4.

But the drum spun at 12000 rpm - pretty good for the 1950's.

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Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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