17 Feb
2025
17 Feb
'25
8:59 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Feb 2025, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
There was an ALGOL compiler for the Z22 released in 1958. As you all know,
the Z22 was a tube-based magnetic drum computer from 1955.
Christian
The Bendix G15
(introduced in 1956) had ALGO, their variant of Algol. Not
sure when this was available, but likely after 1958 or so. I think it was
the only high level language available on that computer.
Running anything like Algol on a machine with drum memory seems a bit
optimistic!