22 Sep
2013
22 Sep
'13
7:23 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Josh Dersch wrote:
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Yeah, not BASIC (I had misremembered) but the Fairchild SYMBOL (mid-late 60s)
essentially had a compiler implemented in hardware for a programming language
(called SYMBOL); effectively it executed program text directly. There's a bit
of info here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/computer_structures_pri…
I want to track down more documentation on the language, there doesn't seem to
be a great deal of information currently available about it. The above book
makes reference to a publication "[Chesley and Smith, 1971]" that looks to be
a good source of information. Going to have to dig that one up.
- Josh
There's a nice, short, IEEE article:
Fairchild Symbol Computer
Stanley Mazor, Anne Fitzpatrick
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 30, Number 1,
January-March 2008, pp. 92-95 (Article)
at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ieee_annals_of_the_history_of_computing/v030/3…
or, as two lines to be joined:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
ieee_annals_of_the_history_of_computing/v030/30.1mazor.pdf
--Ernest