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[Paul Hite]

In article <13530001 at hp-and.HP.COM>, panek at hp-and.HP.COM (Jon Panek) writes:
> A *long* time ago I actually did assembler and Fortran/4 coding on 
> an IBM/1130.  There were a series of run-time errors whose error codes 
> were things like
> 
> 	F003		Divide by zero
> 	F001		Printer not ready
> 
> Any agreement on this?
> 
> Jon Panek
> HP Andover

No way, Jon.  Fubar predates even the 1130.  The 1130 had many series of
error codes.  9000 was 1403 printer not ready and 9xxx indicated other 
trouble with the 1403.  The Fxxx series were errors detected by the Fortran
library, so if you got these from assembler, you either loaded the accumulator
yourself and halted or you called the Fortran library from assembler.  There
were dozens of these and only a few were of the form F00x.  I lived in terror
of F101...

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