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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: steve@quintile.net, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] efl
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:08:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9CE68C8-248E-4366-AF87-A7D1C5BBAE2B@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202112190754.1BJ7sAMt028858@freefriends.org>

On Dec 18, 2021, at 11:54 PM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Were you not aware of struct(1)?  It was in V7 and BSD. It would read
> regular Fortran and turn it into ratfor.
> 
> I never used it, but I thought it was the coolest kind of thing.

So did I! I used it to convert an early PAL assembler (palasm?)
from FORTRAN IV to ratfor and then I hand translated it to C. I
don't recall if there was a need for this or I just felt like it!
This was possibly before AMD introduced PAL22V10. IIRC we used
PAL16V8s on the Fortune box.



      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-19  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-18  8:11 Steve Simon
2021-12-19  7:54 ` arnold
2021-12-19  8:08   ` Bakul Shah [this message]

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