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Title: What was a 'job' in this environment?
Post by: turbomen on May 19, 2010, 12:58:13 AM

Dear ALL,

The second generation of computers used transistors and introduced Batch processing between 1955 and 1965.  Could you tell me what was a 'job' in this environment?  what main programming languages were in use? Typical OS's were FMS and IBSYS.  What do these acronymas stand for?

Cheers,

Title: Re: What was a 'job' in this environment?
Post by: Allan on May 19, 2010, 06:13:07 AM

We don't do homework assignments. Try Google.

Title: Re: What was a 'job' in this environment?
Post by: patio on May 19, 2010, 07:13:58 PM

Sausage and Legislation...

Title: Re: What was a 'job' in this environment?
Post by: Geek-9pm on May 19, 2010, 08:29:45 PM

COBOL was read from those punched cards l you should not spindle.
The common mainframe was the IBM 360. The 'batch' was called Job Control Language. At that time pizza was just starting to become popular.

That, in a nutshell, is all you want to know about computers in the late 50s early 60s.

Title: Re: What was a 'job' in this environment?
Post by: Aegis on May 19, 2010, 10:32:40 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090/94_IBSYS

For starters...there's a whole Internet out there, just waiting for you...

Title: Re: What was a 'job' in this environment?
Post by: frankken2 on May 20, 2010, 05:31:45 AM

Transistors provide most of the activities a circuit needs to operate. In their most basic representation, transistors are amplifiers. That is, they take and amplify a signal from the level produced by a microphone and amplify it enough to blast it out through a speaker. Transistors are also used on decision making circuits, like electronic gates and Central Processing Units (CPUs). Solid state, electronic systems like desktop computers, cell phones, and GPS devices would not be possible without transistors.