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Re: Anybody remember this compiler option?         

Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: Terence
Date: Aug 5, 2008 05:00

Walter Spector wrote:
> Gordon Sande wrote:
>> ...
>> At one time there was a tool that did this sort of thing for Fortran 66.
>> But that was quite a while ago. I do not even recall a name for the tool
>> although my impression it was directed as use with IBM 360/91 which are
>> truly ancient history anymore. The tool was written in F66, read a F66
>> program and output a modified F66 program.
>
> Yup, see:
>
> http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/322
>
> About 30 years ago, I read the article, called Dr Schneck, and one of
> his minions sent me a tape of it. I may still have a copy of it on
> 9-track tape. (Carefully written at 1600 bpi in order to always be
> readable...)
>
> Besides what was described in the article, it also had the beginnings
> of code to turn Illiac-style array syntax into Fortran DO loops.
> This was several years before tools like VAST and KAP.
>
> The code was pretty IBM-centric, and assumed one had a machine with
> 16mbytes of address space. Since I was not using machines with VM
> at the time, I never really got it running. And by the time I did
> have a larger machine to use, compiler technology had passed it by.
>
> W.
Er, I thought that too, but the Earth's field changes and is
equivalent to a moving magnet near your tapes. I lost my 1970's BMD
Fortran IV source tapes that way, and other tape stuff I wote in
the1960's...

Tapes get wiped by simple time lapse (as well as self-wiping due to
relaxation of the domains).
It's why I clean up and re-order my disc drive contents; here wwe have
a SPINNIING disc in the earth's field!. Remember Mu-metal?
CD-roms are MUCH better time-wise.
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