On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:14:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you read the origional Fortran for the 704? Its a hoot (its on > ibm's website). For the interested, a quick google search found the following url - fortran ii listing for the 704. I guess it's the compiler, not that I can really read it - assembly on the 704 I mean. I learnt assembly for later systems (360/370) when I was in school. URL is http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/source/fortran-ii/304349-Volume_III.pdf About 21 megs of PDF. Since it's volume III, one guesses there is a volume one and two at least. So it's part of the compiler source. (Un)fortunately I never was young enough to do programming on machines that were that ancient - best I could do was wait for a couple of hours for a cobol program to run during finals week at the junior college around here. But that was on a relatively underpowered 370 running DOS/VSE with a bunch of student terminals - we even had punch card early on. That machine only had 2 megs of real (core) memory. ;) Or at least I think it was still core then. Older folks have passed down horror stories that some of the original fortran compile runs were done as N-pass compilers for values of N close to 20. One had to load the original compiler (on cards) into the machine too, and the intermediate runs were chained back to back on big iron tape drives. > Doug. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]