(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4197) 43 Fortran compilers

[Ian D Chivers]

I would be interested in knowing what they were.

I worked at Imperial College from 1978-1986
On CDC kit mainly (6400, 6500, 170, 174)
and we had
  
  CDC Fortran
  Minnesota Fortran

As the main two supported Fortran compilers.

I also vaguely remember a Waterloo Fortran.

There was a CDC 1700 and I think that had a Fortran compiler.
Would that have counted as another compiler?

Cheers

ian


-----Original Message-----
From: j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org] On Behalf
Of David Muxworthy
Sent: 01 March 2010 17:47
To: sc22wg5 at open-std.org
Subject: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4197) 43 Fortran compilers

One or two people seemed surprised when I said at the WG5 meeting  
that there were 43 Fortran compilers in the early 1960s.  The figure  
was taken from Oswald, H. (1964), 'The various Fortrans', Datamation  
vol 10 (August), pp 25-29.  Oswald was reviewing 16 different Fortran  
systems.  I think I also said outside the meeting that the first  
Fortran on a non-IBM machine was in 1961-2.  In fact it was in 1960  
on a Philco 2000, but not called Fortran.  The first non-IBM  
'Fortran' was on a Univac SS80 in 1961.

David
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