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Re: IDL 5.2 array definition question. [message #21430 is a reply to message #21428]

Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Paul van Delst (pvandelst@ncep.noaa.gov) writes:
>
>> Like I alluded to previously, IDL 5.3 raised the limit to 65536 (or
>> thereabouts) which is way larger than any array initialisation anyone
>> would want to type by hand, but I would still like to know what design
>> decisions the pre-5.3 behaviour was based on. That's all.
>
> Memory limitations on a PDP-11 computer. :-)

I remember using one of those to do my fortran assignments on back in
'83. Was I glad when they updated to a DEC-20!

I believe a well know poster to this newsgroup (who shall remain
un-named) used to have to boot one of those PDP-11's with 8" floppies
and cassettes, flicking switches and blinking lights, to process lidar
data. Man. Couldn't boot that thing a couple of years after I got there
as we used the boot discs for late afternoon "duck-or-die" sessions.
Getting hit by a frisbee-ing 8" floppy (with the case on) shure hurts.
Yow.

paulv

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