15 Feb
2025
15 Feb
'25
3:50 p.m.
On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 23:19 +0000, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Univac used Fieldata well into the 80s, ISTR.
Well beyond then. The Clearpath 2200 went out the door in the early
2000's, when Angus McRonald retired. He was the last one left who was
using old Voyager codes that were trapped in the Univac because nobody
wanted to pay to revise them for newer computers. Univac also had a
quarter-word mode for ASCII, even as far back as 1108. The newer
FORTRAN V compiler was called the ASCII compiler because CHARACTER type
was, by default, quarter-word instead of sixth-word.