meaning of gol

1. GOL General Operating Language. Subsystem of DOCUS. [Sammet 1969, p. 678]. golden [Probabaly from folklores "golden egg"] When used to describe a magnetic medium e. g. "golden disk", "golden tape", describes one containing a tested, up-to-spec, ready-to-ship software version. Compare platinum-iridium. [Jargon File] golf ball printer The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter. The "golf ball" was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude; one could change the font by swapping in a different golf ball. This was the technology that enabled APL to use a non-EBCDIC, non-ASCII, and in fact completely non-standard character set. This put it 10 years ahead of its time - where it stayed, firmly rooted, for the next 20, until character displays gave way to programmable bit-mapped devices with the flexibility to support other character sets.

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