10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
9:38 a.m.
On 2012 Aug 10, at 9:04 AM, ben wrote:
And of course with out simulators modern hardware never could be made.
...
Back to FORTRAN. At one time utilities for new
hardware (1970's)
was written in FORTRAN to
portable. Any idea what machines they expected the programs to be
ran on?
When the 68000 (68-thousand) first came out, Moto provided a
simulator (written in FORTRAN, TMK) to run on IBM 360/70 hardware (or
at least that's what we ran it on, under MTS). I believe that was
quite common as the 360/70 arch. was so prevalent, particularly
amongst time-sharing services and computing centres.