Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us11.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=hYbAg`^NlEMN1iZmU4fL3MHWonT5<]0TMdjI?Uho:XeKlL51CP6LDLL95GMl]75=8AHmmfl3JE?fO7@ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: IBM 5120 (was: Re: Find "py.exe" & copy it to "Python" (flat, no extension).) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <665d1d57$0$2363138$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OS: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 53 NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1719468997 reader.netnews.com 2363136 127.0.0.1:42085 Bytes: 3365 vallor wrote: >On 26 Jun 2024 23:27:55 GMT, rbowman wrote in >: >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:06:52 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> >>> Anyway, Wikipedia can be used to get a quick handle on a topic, and an >>> easy link to the basics. But one needs to read the literature for a >>> more complete story. >> >> I use Wikipedia references quite a bit as a quick overview of a subject >> and even kick in during their fund drives. Something like >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5120 >> >> is non-controversial and accurate. > >I think this is the system I first has a paying job programming. The >system I remember had 3 "partitions" that could run 3 different programs >simultaneously, and came with a DE/RPG II compiler, which I used >to write software for a Farmers Insurance agent. > >Sure beat my previous job at Burger King! This was at the end of >High School, and a bit past graduation. > >Compiles took forever though...I remember starting a >compile, setting a wind-up alarm clock, and napping >for 90 minutes while the thing cranked along at a snail's pace. >The printer would output each line it was compiling...maybe one >every 10 seconds, iirc. (This was 44 years ago!) > >I don't remember the system having BASIC though. GWBASIC on my friend's Tandy DOS PC was the first thing to turn me onto coding, we were in middle school having a sleepover. It led to a whole thing including my major in college, and the reason I'm here. Takes me back. -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.