[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-26 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 25, 2024, at 4:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > Looking at the webpage for the CDC version, I noticed the comment about SB0 > B0 vs. NO and the "lore" about the divide unit. That issue is reported in > Thornton's book. It wouldn't surprise me if it were a real issue on

[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Looking at the webpage for the CDC version, I noticed the comment about SB0 B0 vs. NO and the "lore" about the divide unit. That issue is reported in Thornton's book. It wouldn't surprise me if it were a real issue on the "preproduction serial number 3" system where that code was first created

[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread James Liu via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 9:54 AM Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > Neat. I vaguely remember that program name from long ago, though I haven't > used it. (Part of why it's familiar is that it's a nice Dutch word hard to > pronounce for most others... :-) ) Done on purpose of course :-) > I won

[cctalk] Re: CDC and IBM Schoonschip

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 25, 2024, at 9:43 AM, James Liu via cctalk > wrote: > > Hi, > > As some of you may recall, a few years ago I asked for assistance > reading a 9 track tape containing IBM S/360 source for Martinus > Veltman's computer algebra program, Schoonschip > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoo