22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
8:07 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
> But maybe not--even the lowly IBM 1620 with 20K digits (not bytes--a
> character took 2 digits) of core and no disk drive would compile
> FORTRAN.
>...
The really fun part was using "load and go fortran". As I recall (dimly),
you'd load the fortran deck and then load your fortran code. I'm pretty
sure it compiled into memory and then just ran it...
-brad