7 Aug
2012
7 Aug
'12
7:56 p.m.
> I'd hardly call a System/3 a
"supercomputer".
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, William Donzelli wrote:
It did have FORTRAN! I wonder what kind of a
trainwreck that was.
FORTRAN hardly a "supercomputer" makes!
TRS80 Model 1 had FORTRAN! I personally sold the first three retail
copies! Microsoft had delayed it repeatedly; I was passing through the
Seattle airport, and Bob Wallace forced that department's hand and got me
three copies delivered straight from Microsoft to me at the Seattle
airport.
5150 had FORTRAN. Now THAT was a trainwreck! On simple benchmarks, such
as an integer Sieve of Erastothanes, it was slower than the 5150
interpreted BASIC!