I definitely got free source code software in 1965 from SHARE, maybe it was called the SSD - Share Software Distribution?
At Purdue, my EE major professor called me on a Sunday that he had just returned from the (IEEE?) Conference where the Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transform paper had been first presented, and by Monday afternoon I had used the logic described in that paper to write a FORTRAN program that verified the incredible speed up of the FFT algorithm (I recall minimum factors of 256 times faster). A few months later, my prof called me to say the Computer Center had received the regular package of card decks of programs from SHARE, and there was a new FORTRAN FFT Subroutine written by Tukey himself. I ultimately found the store room with a long wall of card-deck cabinets, a printed index of what was where, two card duplicators, and cases of blank IBM cards (all of which were always made in in Greencastle, IN). When I looked at Tukey's program, I recall it's inner loop was a dozen or so instructions, versus the several hundred lines of code I had constructed to do the same think, and recognized the difference between a Programmer and a Coder. Barry Herbert W. “Barry” Merrill, PhD President-Programmer MXG Software Merrill Consultants 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229-5112 [email protected] Fax: 214 350 3694 – Still works, received as email Tel: 214 351 1966 – Unreliable, please use email www.mxg.com HomePage: FAQ answers most questions [email protected] License Forms, Invoice, Payment, ftp information [email protected] Technical Issues MXG-L FREE ListServer http://www.mxg.com/mxg-l_listserver/ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 7:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Having the mainframe on YouTube On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:45:35 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >The original open source software guy was ... Chuck Moore (FORTH). > >He decided about 1969 that all software should be distributed in source. Wasn't SHARE doing that in 1955? And I'm sure that they weren't the first. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
