>>20
Yeah, a crazy Algol compiler with its own memory (and at this time programmers were still paging by hand) and which had to control devices down to the metal. Kind of like an OS.
megabytes of memory
The system has been designed for a Dutch machine, the
EL X8 (N.V. Electrologica, Rijswijk (ZH)). Charac-
teristics of our configuration are:
(1) core memory cycle time 2.5usec, 27 bits; at present
32K;
(2) drum of 512K words, 1024 words per track, rev.
time 40msec;
Well, it did cross the Mega-octet barrier, but the drum seemed to be secondary storage.
>>22
Most? Well, I guess that it was a pretty self-selected crowd then. Would you sing praises to Javascript or PHP now? And it doesn't detract from my point.