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<big> ACP and PARS </big> ─── I was part of the team that first implemented the Passenger Airline Reservation System for a hotel/motel business ─── a motel room is just a huge seat (chair) with a bed, alarm clock, TV (color!), ice bucket, and a personal bathroom (tub & shower) with soap, shampoo, and towels, ··· but doesn't fly anywhere. <br><br><br>
<big> APL </big> ─── still bemuses me. I once read in "The IBM Journal" on an article on '''APL''' that the article's author wrote a 2-line APL program that validated chess moves (except for queening and castling). He said he could condense the 2-liner into a 1-liner, but then it would be harder to read. Funniest thing I ever read in an "IBM Journal" article. <br><br><br>
<big> BPL </big> ─── (<u>B</u>asic <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) was a Honeywell subset of the PL/I language (I was one of a dozen or so programmers/authors). <br><br><br>
<big> HPL </big> ─── (<u>H</u>oneywell <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) was a subset of PL/I (similar to above) and was to be used for Honeywell's new computer (code name unknown) ─── it was never built, but from what I could glean from the specs, it would have used HPL as it's native [machine] language and seemed to have some of the characteristics of IBM's '''FS''' system (and apparently, suffered the same fate). <br><br><br>
<big> IBM 407 plugboard </big> ─── can't be many of us plugboard programmers left. <br><br><br>
Kingston FORTRAN II ─── (locally called FORTRAN 2.5) was for the IBM 1620 with a lot of FORTRAN IV capability. It supported floating point arithmetic even if the (optional) hardware feature for floating point wasn't installed. <br><br><br>▼
▲<big> Kingston FORTRAN II </big> ─── (locally called FORTRAN 2.5) was for the IBM 1620 with a lot of FORTRAN IV capability. It supported floating point arithmetic even if the (optional) hardware feature for floating point wasn't installed. <br><br><br>
Viatron FORTRAN IV ─── was the FORTRAN compiler for the Viatron home computer (I was one of the CUC authors of the compiler and libraries; CUC was the ''Computer Usage Company'', at that time, the oldest software company in the USA) and had it's fingers in writing some of the routines for IBM's TSS, which enabled CUC to write the first non─IBM book on writhing/coding assembler for the IBM/360. <br><br><br>▼
▲<big> Viatron FORTRAN IV </big> ─── was the FORTRAN compiler for the Viatron home computer (I was one of the CUC authors of the compiler and libraries; CUC was the ''Computer Usage Company'', at that time, the oldest software company in the USA) and had it's fingers in writing some of the routines for IBM's TSS, which enabled CUC to write the first non─IBM book on writhing/coding assembler for the IBM/360. <br><br><br>
I also update the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code <u> (English) Wikipedia page for <big>''Rosetta Code''</big></u>] from time to time.
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