(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4203) RE: 43 Fortran compilers

[Bill Long]

Ian D Chivers wrote:
> 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

Indeed, M77.  I looked at the manual and found that, in 1980, M77 had 
the radical extension of A .op. B where op was and, or, xor, ... and A 
and B were numeric type variables, with the operations bitwise.  Only 30 
years ago.  Maybe this idea needs a bit more time to mature. :)

Cheers
Bill


> 
> 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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