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> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:53:43 -0500, "John W. Kennedy"
> <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> robin wrote:
>>> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:8ojAf.3953$e9.3645@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Tom Linden wrote:
>>>>> Not sure how far this goes back in time, but i bet it is to the 50's
>>>>> anyway.
>>>> At the very least, it is /not/ the case in the IBM
>>>> 704/709/7040/7044/7090/7094 family, which is the architecture that
>>>> FORTRAN was designed for, the architecture under discussion in this
>>>> subthread, and the most im****tant scientific architecture previous to
>>>> the 360.
>>> The most im****tant scientific architecture before the 360
>>> was the Pilot ACE in which pioneering work on floating point and
>>> theory of rounding errors was developed.
>> Every FORTRAN program written for the Pilot ACE was successfully
>> recompiled for the S/360 on September 8, 1752.
>
> 1752 ???
Precisely. It is an especially memorable date, as it was also on that
same day that the first ironclad proof was found that the Apollo
landings were faked.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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