LOL ! I got that fellows :D
But, I guess, computer geeks don't usually have girl friends and the same I do!!
Unfortunately :(
LOL
But, I guess, computer geeks don't usually have girl friends and the same I do!!
Unfortunately :(
LOL
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:37 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, August 19, 2008 12:06, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:50 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> I don't recall that anybody referred to "DASD" connected to our IBMWe emulated the 1401 on the DEC 11/20 for a while, first with a standalone
>> 1401;
>> it was just "disk". Were we just a weird corner (I wouldn't swear they
>> didn't use some weird term like DASD in the manuals, just that none of
>> the
>> people I worked with used it)? Or was that a later term, say from the
>> 360
>> generation?
>>
>> (When I worked on the 1401, we were in fact well into the 360 generation
>> chronologically, just not at the place I was working; that was in 1969,
>> and we moved from the 1401 to a DEC PDP-11/20 just a couple of years
>> after
>> that.)
>
> Ditto here. But our 1401 stuff was being emulated on S360/30. During
> that time, DASD became the lazy acronym used extensively to cover any of
> the then-extant direct-access devices (drums, cylinders, "disks" -
> euphemistically mounted in "pizza ovens (2314/19 IIRC).
emulator, later with a run-time system that integrated into RSTS and let
us run the 1401 applications under time-sharing.
I think of drums as being generally *before* then, and what are cylinders
that differs from drums? But it *does* actually make sense to have a
generic term for that class of storage; we just didn't have enough
examples to need it, and "DASD" sounds stupid :-), and as an IBM mainframe
term wasn't something we wanted to emulate.
I suppose we're getting a bit far off-topic, but thanks for the stroll
down memory lane!
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