Help reading a 9 track tape

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/2/21 12:19 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Aug 2, 2021, at 11:11 AM, James Liu via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> Thanks for feedback and offers to assist.  I received the tape from
>> one of the maintainers of Schoonship at CERN, and it was probably made
>> around 1978 at SLAC.
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>> For some background, Tini Veltman developed Schoonship in the 1960's
>> at CERN on the CDC 6600.  My understanding is that he more or less
>> insisted on coding in assembly since he thought FORTRAN or other high
>> level languages would just get in the way and slow things down.
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> Depending on what he was trying to do that may well be a valid assessment.  CDC Fortran was known to be pretty good, but Fortran  is not the obvious answer for implementing interpreters or other language processors, which this sounds like.
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Some might argue with you about that.  PL/M was done in Fortran IV.

bill