8 Aug
2012
8 Aug
'12
2:48 p.m.
On 8 Aug 2012 at 11:53, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, yes--there was a bare-bones "USA BASIC FORTRAN" for the smaller
32-bit S/360s (I used it under DOS. It was distinguished by the fact
that it probably had fewer than 10 one-or-two-word error messages),
but I wonder if there was ever one for the 16-bit model 20.
--Chuck
I'm referring to Microsoft FORTRAN for the 5150,
as sold by IBM in
1983?
Just wondering--R-M had both FORTRAN and COBOL for the 5150 pretty
early on.
45 years ago, on the 1620, we had PDQ ("Pretty
Damn Quick" (a lie))
FORTRAN, IIRC, it was two passes to compile, each one called for a 3
or 4 inch deck of cards for thqat phase of the compiler. I had
previously written FORTRAN on 360s at GWU, but the 1620 was my first
chance to OPERATE the computer.
I used both the card-oriented IBM FORTRAN (read in the first pass,
then your source, cross your fingers and hope the 1622 doesn't flake
out while punching the intermediate results, the read in the second
pass, collect the punched object, then read it in with loader and
library. Lots places for things to get messed up.
Later I used FORTRAN II-D under Monitor II on the 1620 with an 1311
disk. It worked much better and you could call SPS subroutines from
it. No user-oriented file system per-se; just "work cylinders" that
were fair game for any program and the "system area" with fixed
locations for ssystem code..
Ever use it?
Was there a
FORTRAN for the 360/20?
There was for the 360/30 at least. Later there was WATFOR
My father did his work at GWU (George Washington University).
I did a lot of keypunching, verifying, and sorting.