7 Aug
2012
7 Aug
'12
9:45 p.m.
On 7 Aug 2012 at 19:56, Fred Cisin wrote:
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!
Do you recall who did the FORTRAN? Was it Ryan-McFarland? If so, I
can understand the speed.
Microsoft F80 for 8080 had pretty decent code generation. I think
the FORTRAN for ISIS-II (Intel MDS) came on something like 7 8"
floppies. It was BIG.
Was there a FORTRAN for the 360/20?
--Chuck