On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote:
On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham <bill...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in the 1950s and it was some early
calculators that killed slide rules. What kind of "processor" were they using?
I'm not so sure there was real HLL before Adm. Hopper. And no binary by Babbge. Do you
have any links or anything from the '40s?
HLL? I was talking about assembler... Anyway, I don't believe COBOL was the
first HLL, though it certainly was fairly early.
The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN. Lisp might have been the
second, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'm not sure what kind of calculators Bill are thinking of. But until
the early 70s, calculators were usually mechanical, or electromechanical
things with cogwheels, and definitely worked in decimal.
No processors in there...
Johnny
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