Talk:Digitek

WHEN DID MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS KNOW DIGITEK WAS BEING RECALLED??? SINCE RECEIVING HER LAST ORDER OF 3-MONTH PRESCRIPTIONS, IT ONLY TOOK HER 2 WEEKS FOR HER TO GO RIGHT DOWNHILL. SHE HAD NO ENERGY AT ALL AND HAD TO FORCE HERSELF TO GET UP & MOVING IN THE MORNING. SAME REACTION SHE HAD LAST YEAR WHEN SHE WAS OVER-MEDICATED, PER HER THEN DOCTOR'S ORDERS, SHE COULD BARLEY WALK AROUND IN HER HOME. I'M REALLY UPSET ABOUT HER BEING OVER-MEDICATED BY RIGHT SOURCE. MY MOTHER, EMMA CLARK, IS 81 YEARS OLD. I'M HER DAUGHTER & CAREGIVER. BEFORE MY DAD PASSED, 2 YEARS AGO THIS AUGUST, RIGHT SOURCE SENT THE WRONG MEDICATION WHICH I THOUGHT HIS DOCTOR HAD ORDERED FOR HIM BUT QUESTIONED THE NAME ON BOTTLE AFTER I GAVE HIM A DOSE WHICH HE HAD A REACTION TO THAT WAS A NIGHTMARE. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH YOU QUALITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT? THESE MISTAKES HAD HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES. I DON'T TO ORDER HER PRESCRIPTIONS FROM RIGHT-SOURCE AGAIN EVEN THOUGH HER TEN MEDICATIONS ARE EASIER TO KEEP TRACK OF BY ORDERING ALL AT THE SAME TIME. BUT NOW I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR PACKAGING PROCEDURE AND HOPING UPON FURTHER RESEARCH OF THIS LATEST RECALL, YOUR PILLS ARE NOT MADE OR BEING PACKAGED IN CHINA OR ANY OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME & CONSIDERATION IN THIS SERIOUS MATTER. DEBORAH A. CLARK (850-575-8736)


 * LOLWOT ? This has been here for almost 10 years, so I'm not going to remove it. Deborah is referring to the prescription drug Digoxin sold by Mylan as Digitek, that was subsequently recalled by the FDA.  I hope Deborah solved her problem and her mom is now 91 and still going strong. She's possibly still sitting by the phone waiting for a callback from Mylan. Someone should call her and let her know that the Internet's got her back. Brianonn (talk) 06:21, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Bell Labs PL/I
At least one Digitek ad trumpeted their PL/I compiler for Bell Labs for use in Multics, although it was a complete failure. The same compiler was later excoriated by GE.

I removed mentions of Bell Labs and GE from the article. These might be restored if placed in adequate context, which can be gleaned from the van Vleck reference. I am not aware of Digitek making any other PL/I compiler, so other mentions of PL/I may be incorrect, too. Mdmi (talk) 17:33, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I would suggest the below text for this:
 * Digitek wrote language systems for almost every popular programming language at the time including FORTRAN, PL/I, SIMSCRIPT, COBOL, and BASIC. Digitek compilers included the IBM System 360 G Level FORTRAN. The PL/I system was written under contract for Multics, but the code delivered was severely deficient and the resulting damages claim led to the company's demise. [1][2]
 * "" 77.172.38.96 (talk) 18:55, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * "" 77.172.38.96 (talk) 18:55, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Programmed Operators - POPS
I am not sure the reference to the SDS900 is helpful. First and foremost the POPS were abstract operations for compiler writing, roughly analogous to META II. See some descriptions here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitek/

With SDS being their launch customer it is quite possible that the abstract operations were mapped to the POPS opcodes of the SDS900, but making that the central point in the article confuses the reader who is trying to understand how these abstract operations helped create portable operations. I would suggest:

"" Due to their implementation using abstract operations called POPS (for "Programmed Operators"), the company's compilers could be developed rapidly and had a common core. POPS included such operations as scanning text, manipulating LIFO and FIFO stacks, generating code snippets and making recursive calls. [1][5] The name POPS may have been suggested by a mechanism for software defined opcodes on the SDS900 computer [3][4].

This later allowed a successor company, Ryan-McFarland Corporation, to capitalize on the rapid expansion of the microcomputer market in the late 1970s and early 1980s by providing POPS-based compilers to virtually all of the emerging computer vendors at the time. ""

[5] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitek/Data_Structures_in_Digiteks_FORTRAN_IV_Compiler_for_the_SDS_900_Series.pdf 77.172.38.96 (talk) 18:49, 14 July 2023 (UTC)