Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Ah, the 'bad ol' days'

I remember Focal that was 76-77 era. Now that's way back the old with the
hard disc crashes that would require reboots every hour or so.

----- Original Message -----
From: "dave engvall" <dengvall@...>
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Ah, the 'bad ol' days'


> Jon Elson wrote:
>
> > We loaded FOCAL, an interpreted language similar to
> > some early minicomputer BASICs on it once, and it couldn't keep up with
an
> > ASR-33 teletype!
>
> FOCAL was indeed interpreted but was based on ALGOL and therefore block
oriented. Users of Pascal would feel very comfortable. I
> guess I was so happy to have something that worked that I never noticed
the slowness.
>
> Dave
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