From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [TUHS] FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:58:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c55cef95-17de-7398-a0bc-dbce17228d49@update.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.48.1521640130.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
On 2018-03-21 14:48, Paul Winalski<paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/20/18, Clem Cole<clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>> Paul can correct me, but I don't think DEC even developed a Pascal for TOPS
>> originally - IIRC the one I used came from the universities. I think the
>> first Pascal sold was targeted for the VAX. Also, RT11 and RSX were
>> 'laboratory' systems and those systems were dominated by Fortran back in
>> the day - so DEC marketing thought in those terms.
>>
> DEC did do a Pascal for RSX. I don't remember if it supported RT11 or
> RSTS. DEC did a BASIC compiler for RSTS and RSX. RSX and especially
> RT were designed mainly for real-time process control in laboratories.
DEC did both COBOL, DIBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN (-IV, -IV-PLUS, -77), C as
well as Datatrieve for RSX and RSTS/E. Some of these were also available
for RT-11. Admittedly, the C compiler was very late to the game.
> A lot of the programming was in assembler for efficiency reasons
> (both time and space).
Yes. And MACRO-11 is pretty nice.
Johnny
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2018-03-21 22:58 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2018-03-21 14:51 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 21:57 ` Charles Anthony
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2018-03-19 15:55 [TUHS] RIP John Backus Clem Cole
2018-03-19 16:58 ` [TUHS] FORTRAN Steve Johnson
2018-03-19 17:32 ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-20 17:42 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 17:47 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-19 18:47 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-20 18:15 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 19:55 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-20 20:21 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 20:27 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 8:10 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-03-21 20:56 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 21:15 ` Dennis Boone
2018-03-20 21:36 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 21:59 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-20 23:00 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-21 13:48 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:55 ` Ron Natalie
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