28 Sep
2014
28 Sep
'14
8:09 a.m.
On 9/28/2014 8:02 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
I think Time Sharing vs Control computers splits most usage up better.
On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Back to BIG machines. BIG as 16K words , printer , card reader, disk I/O.
On 09/27/2014 03:11 PM, ben wrote:
It can. There?s a PDP-10 port of GCC, and there is a C for the CDC 6600. I would agree
that C for an IBM 1620 would be a bit more of a challenge.
> .. I think that FORTRAN was portable only if you had
a main frame around
and a IBM card reader.
It depends. There were a lot of cross-assemblers written in FORTRAN. Some could be run
on non-binary, non-ASCII, non-8-bit character machines.
Let's see 'C' do that. I think a lot
of young-uns are unaware of exactly how different 60s and 70s systems could be from one
another. S/360 does not represent the beginning of time by a long shot.
--Chuck
True. Gordon Bell?s computer architecture book is a valuable reminder of that.
paul