------- Comment #1 from malitzke at metronets dot com 2007-06-21 08:08 ------- Disclosure:
I am not an IBM hater and never was. My first significant program ran on an IBM 1410 with a Tape Operating System (TOS) on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. I then used an IBM 1620 II extensively.; migrated to an IBM 1800 and to an IBM 1130. All worked well for these early systems, but, I had to open the door fairly often late at night for an IBM customer service man. At another firm I worked with the then largest and newest IBM 360's. Overall, I had twice teams come from the Almaden Labs to resolve issues with DASD's and the FORTRAN H compiler (early seventies). On the other hand I really got to hate PL/I, as I could interpret ABEND dumps and colleagues came to my office with 1-2 feet high dumps that mostly by the PL/I compiler going off on a tangent. This interfered with my work and I turned to satellite telecommunications. I only returned to programming as a hobby and as a retirement activity. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32447
