22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
7:08 p.m.
On 22 Mar 2007 at 11:07, Brad Parker wrote:
> 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...
My memory's a little dim, but without a 1311, (and hence an honest-to-
gosh operating system--sort of), I think you were pretty much
confined to loading the compiler, which immedately punched a loader
deck, then read your program and punched an object deck. You then
loaded the punched object deck with the subroutine deck and it ran.
I do remember the dreaded "OVERLAP" error--that and the 1622 mulching
the compiler deck.
Hey, it was barely FORTRAN, but it was FORTRAN!
Cheers,
Chuck