7 Aug
2015
7 Aug
'15
10:25 a.m.
Eric Christopherson wrote:
Is there a subset of this group for people who like to
program in
languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer
in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing?
It may be possible that FORTRAN 77 under RT-11 on a
PDP-11 qualifies as far as you are concerned. In addition
to the standard library supplied by DEC, I also wrote a
few multi-precision subroutines which handle unsigned
integer values up ti 512-bits and mixed unsigned values
with a 512-bit unsigned integer portion and a fractional
portion of 512-bits.
Quite recently, I have a requirement to square very large
unsigned integers up to one billion bits which will require
additional subroutines. Implementation will almost certainly
be done under Ersatz-11 with the actual code using x86
instructions within PC memory using a DLL supported
by Ersatz-11 running RT-11. Even then, it seems doubtful
that the code will be fast enough in a 32-bit environment.
Does this interest you?
Jerome Fine