I’d like a copy. This is the card version?
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 15:44 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> The Electrologica ALGOL compilers used somewhat similar mixtures of >> pseudocode and machine code. > > The IBM 1401 Fortran compiler 1401-FO-050 (subset of Fortran II) > generated machine code for integer operations, and bytecode for > floating point. The machine didn't have any floating-point hardware. > The bytecode was smaller than subroutine calls would have been. > Floating-point arithmetic was rather well done. Up to 20 decimal > digits, with two guard digits. Only significant defect was that > rounding wasn't symmetric. Gary Mokotoff did a very good job. I have > the source code if anybody wants it. >
