My nick feels honoured being linked to something as old as FORTRAN - but the concept is much older; it was invented after speech and before writing, and eventually led to an early cosmic calculator (though at that time writing already had been invented, I guess).
I have heard (through memory sharing) that australian aborigines still have a vast block of shared memory, which they access entirely wireless.
Before the concept of shmem, there was fork.
perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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well, originally I wanted to refer to Wikipedia, but I also wanted the title to be "shmem", and Wikipedia "shmem" is about something more specialized.
Besides, you are much longer with Perlmonks than I, so Fortran seems appropriate :-)
BTW thanks for the hint to the Phaistos Disk. Will read it.
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