[TUHS] fortran compiler, in assembly, for pdp-11

[crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)]

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> Dunno.   The first I dealt with was the f77 based on the pcc backend.
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Hmm. I've found the source code for that compiler (/usr/source/fort in the
v6 distribution) but there doesn't seem to be an attribution.  The man page
seems to be dated 8/20/73, but again lacks attribution; perhaps Ken wrote
it?

        - Dan C.

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> I was not clear, evidently, although part of this is my memory's fault :-)
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> There was a fortran compiler on v6, written in assembly. I was wondering
> who wrote it.
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> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:34 AM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I spent a year or so working on this in 1977. I was wondering who wrote it.
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> Funny but: I once had a compile fail on Motorola's MPL compiler, which was
> written in fortran. It had so many continued comment lines that the 16-bit
> column number went negative, and I got a fairly obscure error.
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> Anyone remember who wrote it?
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