My music partner and I were learning to program in Fortran and 
Pascal so we could program an Apple IIe to act as a sequencer, 
so that it would CV drive some modular synth. 

Two years later MIDI came out and we started using some early 
stuff like the software from the company Syntech, that ran on 
the IIe we had (excuse me,... still have). 

Yeah,... i, j, k,... still works well. Guess that's why it's 
still used in vector caculus (and del operators).


Ah yes,... the good old, bad old days.


-Partev


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--- vip@avatar.com.au wrote:

From: DavidW 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Why "k" rate?
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:30:46 +1000

re why "k"

... from memory...

it was also the case that the original Music series was written in
Fortran which at the time reserved variable names beginning with i,
j, k, ... as integer variables and so k was as good a choice as any
for control.

David
On 03/08/2011, at 6:32 AM, Partev Barr Sarkissian wrote:

Early 1970's we didn't call it computing, we called it computating,
and
the term hacking had a different connotation. Back then, it wasn't
even
8-bit words, it was 4-bit nibbles and the fastest bus configuration
was
the VX100 (still have a photo copy of the pin-out configuration for
that
stashed somewhere).
Ah yes, the days of the Altair 7, before the days of Macs and PC's.
Waxing nostalgic. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Cheers,
-Partev
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--- jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk wrote:
From: jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Why "k" rate?
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:10:36 +0100

  And why is the standard all-pass filter opcode spelled with only
  one L?!

Shorter word.  This is 1980s computing remember
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