________________________________________ From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of ben via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:28 PM To: computer talk Subject: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys
On 3/16/2017 5:16 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > ________________________________________ > From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Chuck Guzis via > cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:08 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys > > On 03/16/2017 02:54 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>>> Porting to diverse architectures is still a great way to find >>>> latent bugs. >>> >>> Too bad people can't be arsed to port merely to diverse *operating >>> systems*, let alone architectures. >> >> I'm one of the folks that works on LCDproc. Part of the release >> testing I do is to compile it on things that aren't just "yet >> another Linux box". Of all the use-cases, I'm pretty sure that it's >> going to work on Debian-flavored things and if that ever breaks, it's >> going to be the one thing that gets fixed first. > > Sadly (or happily--take your choice), architectures aren't nearly as > diverse as they used to be. Ones complement, decimal, six-bit characters... > > And people who weren't there can't understand why FORTRAN was the > closest thing to a "portable" language... > > __________________________________________ > > Not even close to COBOL. :-) > > bill > But was FORTRAN that portable? Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think of a small computer that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile FORTRAN. All the other 16 bitters seem to more paper tape I/O. I suspect 90% of all university computers ended up as IBM 360 systems. A few ended up with the VAX, but who knows what they ran. Ben. _____________________________________ Ummmm... I ran Fortran on a TRS-80 with no problems. I also ran it on an LSI-11/02 under UCSD-Pascal. Of course, I ran COBOL on the same systems. :-) As for Universities. I worked on the academic systems at the Military Academy at West Point. While the G&CS (Geography and Computer Science) Department did have a VAX 11/750 running VMS (and Eunice) the main academic machine when I got there was a Univac-1100 later replaced by a bunch of Prime 850's. bill
