30 Mar
2020
30 Mar
'20
7:13 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:33:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 5:10 PM Diane Bruce via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
...
He was lucky the card deck was in order. One of my first jobs was to read
in old, horrible FORTRAN IV from punch card, then check it against a
listing the boss had and edit to match... This was the same place we wrote
A dropped card deck was disaster and how many folks filled in columns 73 to 80
with an index? Not very many. :-(
malloc for FORTRAN and passed around all kinds of
crazy data structures
that offset into the malloc arena so it would run on both the pdp-11 and
the vax...
Ah yes the LARGE array with indexes used as pointers trick. *ugh* I remember.
I also remember the implementation of Fortran on the university computer
one could abuse the assigned goto and have it execute your own assembler
code on the fly. ;)
Warner
Diane
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