7 Apr
2004
7 Apr
'04
6:05 p.m.
Andy Holt declared on Thursday 08 April 2004 01:00 am:
The 6600 was a single design intended to do one thing
excellently (run
Fortran programs)
One model, one assembler, one Fortran compiler, and a minimal
operating system.
(OK, later came the variants. The other operating systems and
compilers came from the customers)
Indeed. I work with some people that wrote Purdue's CDC 6600 OS. :) If
I'm lucky, I might be able to find a copy on 9 track somewhere. (It's
something in my to-do queue.)
Pat
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