[Pw_forum] bands_FS.x and spin polarized metals

[Nicola Marzari]

Paolo Giannozzi wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007, at 21:32 , Paul M. Grant wrote:
> 
>> And sure enough, if you’re dumb and try anyway, it abends with a  
>> read error
>>
> 
> I am old enough to have seen card punchers in action, so the term
> "abend" is not unknown to me, but I guess younger people don't
> know that it is a shorthand for "abnormal end", on IBM mainframes...


What's a mainframe ? Is it like a really, really big ipod ?

				nicola


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