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From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)
Subject: [TUHS] fortran compiler, in assembly, for pdp-11
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:13:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKvYzZ16zxcO1ykXtZ3+LbKNX_c2Eb8YN3x5iDgrxXxcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exY+=eQLXPKQfuWWAApm4FiZUps3phHcYsi7hoHLJ0GzbCw@mail.gmail.com>

I was not clear, evidently, although part of this is my memory's fault :-)

There was a fortran compiler on v6, written in assembly. I was wondering
who wrote it.

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:34 AM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I spent a year or so working on this in 1977. I was wondering who wrote it.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyone remember who wrote it?
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 17:34 ron minnich
2017-03-07 18:13 ` ron minnich [this message]
2017-03-07 19:37   ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 19:53     ` Dan Cross
2017-03-07 20:03       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-07 21:05       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07 19:40   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07 19:55     ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07 20:41       ` Dave Horsfall

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