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Path: ...!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: tiny COBOL, Article on new mainframe use Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:55:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: <vatf52$2071$1@gal.iecc.com> References: <v9iqko$h7vd$1@dont-email.me> <20240830183742.000065c5@yahoo.com> <vat8uv$1966$1@gal.iecc.com> <XNqAO.174943$FUV7.133561@fx15.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:55:46 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="65761"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <v9iqko$h7vd$1@dont-email.me> <20240830183742.000065c5@yahoo.com> <vat8uv$1966$1@gal.iecc.com> <XNqAO.174943$FUV7.133561@fx15.iad> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Bytes: 1865 Lines: 16 According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>: >>lines. There was even COBOL for the 1401 which is pretty amazing considering how tiny >>a 1401 was and it ran in 4000 characters of core. You needed tapes or a disk but even so. > >I still have a copy of the Nevada COBOL compiler for the Commodore 64. The C64 was a supercomputer compared to a 1401. A 1401 had 4000 to 16000 six-bit characters of core, and the optional disk packs were 2 million characters or in the ballpark of 1.3 megabytes. A C64 had 64K 8-bit bytes of RAM, and the floppies held about 1.2MB but they were a whole lot cheaper than 1311 disk packs. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly