8 Aug
2012
8 Aug
'12
5 p.m.
> I'm referring to Microsoft FORTRAN for the
5150, as sold by IBM in
> 1983?
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Just wondering--R-M had both FORTRAN and COBOL for the
5150 pretty
early on.
But, surely not as slow as the IBM MS-DORTRAN??!?
Ever use it?
No, the only FORTRAN that I had
access to on the 1620 (as a student in
community college) was the "PDQ"
But the 1401 emulator was even more fun.
Well, yes--there was a bare-bones "USA BASIC
FORTRAN" for the smaller
32-bit S/360s (I used it under DOS. It was distinguished by the fact
that it probably had fewer than 10 one-or-two-word error messages),
but I wonder if there was ever one for the 16-bit model 20.
No idea. But the WATFOR had better error messages. Which, as an
inexperienced programmer, I needed.