
S2E18 - re:Clojure Interviews 18 - Gerald Jay Sussman
JUXT Cast
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What Was Programming at This Time?
Programming was not part of the electrical engineering department. An i b m six 50 ran on a drum memory, which had two thousand ten decimal digit words. It took 12 point five milla seconds for it to find any particular word. The biggest computer around at the time was the 17 90 that ad columbia,. used for their administrative stuff.
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