Re: [opensuse] Assembly Language program
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 19:57 -0400, John Ross wrote:
John Ross wrote:
Carl Spitzer wrote:
On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 19:43 +0100, Vince L wrote:
On Sunday 03 June 2007 18:06, jdd wrote:
too many oldtimer, here :-)))
Punched cards, anyone?
IBM 360 / 370 Assembler with a green card guide at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo.
How about an IBM 407a -- whopping 90 card per minute read rate. The "program" was a 14" by 24" board made of bakelight like a car spark plug distributor -- with holes like a peg board -- which held snap pluged wires that combined 1/2 adders and controlled multiple accumulator registers........
An old timer told me about those things and the roaches which used to eat the wires causing shorts, hence the term debugging. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carl Spitzer wrote:
An old timer told me about those things and the roaches which used to eat the wires causing shorts, hence the term debugging.
That term had supposedly been created by Grace Hopper, who found a moth in the computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
Carl Spitzer wrote:
An old timer told me about those things and the roaches which used to eat the wires causing shorts, hence the term debugging.
That term had supposedly been created by Grace Hopper, who found a moth in the computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Fortunately, that page debunks the myth and provides a link to another one http://www.byte.com/art/9404/sec15/art1.htm that gives a detailed explanation, explaining that the term has been around since 1878 at least. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Where do I swich from US to French keyboard for the login screen of kdm ? I have a laptop with SUSE 10.0 where I don't have to "Q" my "As" nor to "W" my "Zs". But on the last machine where I have SUSE 10.2, I just cannt use a french keybord passwording in peace. Please Help. I don't know where to look. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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