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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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       reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.48.1521640130.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-03-21 22:58 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2018-03-21 14:51 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 21:57 ` Charles Anthony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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