Wasn't part of my training 36 years ago. Did they even run on IBM 360/20? lol
Sorry, folks, but I let it all drop, and at the wrong time. What a waste!
I don't remember BASIC used in the old IBM 360 days at all, mostely COBAL and Asemblyer languages. Fortran was also used for Scientific things. Oh how I hated all those punch cards that you needed for a program. The JCL was always fun also.
When I retired there were still a lot of mainframe people there who were having a hard time changeing over to the PC's.
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lol I believe you got your "threads" crossed here. Anyway, BASIC and LOGO are/were simplified programing languages with BASIC being mainly most popular on PCs in the 80's. LOGO may still be in use but BASIC (such as QBASIC and Virtual BASIC excepted perhaps) is for the most part 'dead'. I don't believe there were many professional or industrial applications for BASIC.
Sadly VB's still very much alive. MS is posting new .net sample code in VB first, and other langauges later if at all. Half the reason is that there're more people using it than anything else. The other half is that true to stereotype while they're generally capable of sloppy and pasting code from a website into thier latest abortion porting from one of the other .net langauges is too hard for them to do. :-/
lol I believe you got your "threads" crossed here. Anyway, BASIC and LOGO are/were simplified programing languages with BASIC being mainly most popular on PCs in the 80's. LOGO may still be in use but BASIC (such as QBASIC and Virtual BASIC excepted perhaps) is for the most part 'dead'. I don't believe there were many professional or industrial applications for BASIC.
No, just replying to a post further up this thread.
I did not use a PC till about 1985, always on mainframes before that. Never learned the BASIC that came with the PC DOS 3.1 that was on the first PC I used.
Those old IBM 360's were good, but they were slow compaired to the IBM 370 when we got it. They were fast, they had 2 whare I worked, interfaced (not called networked yet) when I left, running 32 programs at a time. They would not be good for this though, you can run 32 PC's for less than the cooling on the IBM 370 along.
lol I believe you got your "threads" crossed here.
No, just replying to a post further up this thread.
Sorry about that. I thought it was posted in the "For the 80's children/geeks" thread in the Cafe Einstein forum. lol Got my own "threads" crossed instead.
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I did not use a PC till about 1985, always on mainframes before that. Never learned the BASIC that came with the PC DOS 3.1 that was on the first PC I used.
Those old IBM 360's were good, but they were slow compaired to the IBM 370 when we got it. They were fast, they had 2 whare I worked, interfaced (not called networked yet) when I left, running 32 programs at a time. They would not be good for this though, you can run 32 PC's for less than the cooling on the IBM 370 along.
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lol I believe you got your "threads" crossed here. Anyway, BASIC and LOGO are/were simplified programing languages with BASIC being mainly most popular on PCs in the 80's. LOGO may still be in use but BASIC (such as QBASIC and Virtual BASIC excepted perhaps) is for the most part 'dead'. I don't believe there were many professional or industrial applications for BASIC.
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Sadly VB's still very much alive. MS is posting new .net sample code in VB first, and other langauges later if at all. Half the reason is that there're more people using it than anything else. The other half is that true to stereotype while they're generally capable of sloppy and pasting code from a website into thier latest abortion porting from one of the other .net langauges is too hard for them to do. :-/
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No, just replying to a post further up this thread.
I did not use a PC till about 1985, always on mainframes before that. Never learned the BASIC that came with the PC DOS 3.1 that was on the first PC I used.
Those old IBM 360's were good, but they were slow compaired to the IBM 370 when we got it. They were fast, they had 2 whare I worked, interfaced (not called networked yet) when I left, running 32 programs at a time. They would not be good for this though, you can run 32 PC's for less than the cooling on the IBM 370 along.
Try the Pizza@Home project, good crunching.
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Sorry about that. I thought it was posted in the "For the 80's children/geeks" thread in the Cafe Einstein forum. lol Got my own "threads" crossed instead.
Ah, the good 'ol days...