OT Re: [lug] CSU hub for IBM mainframe running thousands of Linux VMs

[carl wagner]

Sean,

I thought the Apple ][e could run UCSD pascal natively (with about 3 compiles
before the disk wore out!).  And they added the Z-80 cards for CP/M, under
which you could run Turbo Pascal?  That is how I did it.  I remember the first
time I compiled a program under TP (3.02a I believe) I thought that the 
compiler was broken because it took less than 1 second to compile (UCSD Pascal 
took several minutes).

Sorry for the OT.
Carl.


Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:11:43PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > IBM will provide Colorado State's College of Business students and
> > faculty with the use of a powerful mainframe. The unique capabilities
> 
> Yeah, but the *BUSINESS SCHOOL*?!?  I didn't realize that business students
> were great adopters of Linux technology...  "What do you mean we've all got
> a dedicated computer but we can't run Office 2000 on them?"  Is this a ploy
> to get the CS geeks to take more accounting classes?  ;-)
> 
> This reminds me when I was in High School, right across the street from
> CSU.  I was taking the Pascal class that the HS offered, and we were all
> running on Apple IIes that had been "upgraded" to run CPM so that we could
> use the UCSD Pascal system.  That year the business lab had gotten a dozen
> or so brand new IBM PCs -- but us lowly computer geeks weren't able to
> touch their souped-up typewriters...
> 
> To make matters worse, HP was always wanting to donate equipment, but the
> school wouldn't take it because their service people only worked on Apples.
> Hopefully, the public education system is better a solid decade later...
> 
> Sean
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