17 Jan
2023
17 Jan
'23
5:05 p.m.
On 2023-01-16 10:45 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Would not something like meta II, be better for that time frame. :)
I still find it hard that we have yet to a common meta language for
computer operations. Every computer just has to be different.
Addressing modes have been the same since the 1950's.
And it seems everybody that used a IBM 360, always defined a new
portable virtual machine for what ever new language the were developing.
Then it was NEVER seen again.
It seems like until the mid 1970's it was hard to find a computer
that had real general purpose registers and lots of ram. Direct and
indirect was the only things you got before then and drum memory.
I am playing with META II, that is really primitive, but fit the
concept of one word size and and direct/indirect addressing.
Ben.
On 1/16/23
19:42, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> It didn't fall for your trick question.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
In fact, feed it the object code for a reasonably
compatible
architecture and ask it to perform translation to another architecture's
object code.
Certainly within the range of human capability.
How well does it do on something "simple", and less esoteric, such as
translating FORTRAN to BASIC?