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Re:The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose co... by cpr on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:28PM (#12362217)
Not to nit-pick but it was Burrough's Algol systems programming dialect rather than straight Algol60. Damned impressive, yep. (See Alan Kay's various talks about computer history.)
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