Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile · Search for Syntax era in comp.lang.fortran
Author: nospam
Date: Jun 28, 2008 08:54
...: 2. You used real*8. That did limit you to compilers that accepted this syntax, which in turn tended to limit you to machines with power-of-two word sizes. But at... machines. Since Dryden's central computer was a CDC from 1973 through 1984, and since that was the era where "central computer" also tended to translate into "pretty much the only computer one had ready access to",...
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