Imlac assembler almost ready...

From: Mike Feher <n4fs_at_monmouth.com>
Date: Mon Sep 16 15:52:01 2002

Well, I grew up with Fortran. My first introduction to a real computer was
in 1964. At the time I lived on Long Island, NY, and the HS I was attending
was close to Brookhaven National Laboratory. I had several ham friends
working there at the time as well. Anyway, between my junior and senior
years at HS BNL offered a summer course for a few select individuals to
learn about computers. I, and about 8 or so of my classmates, decided to
take the class. It was great. We had to program in machine language and
write a program to calculate the value of PI using a power series. What a
great experience. I believe we used an IBM 7094, but it was a long time ago.
I believe the 360 became popular toward the later part of the 60's. At
college everything was in Fortran, and I became pretty comfortable with it.
Used it even after I received my BSEE undergraduate degree. Used Fortran a
lot at work in the early '70s. However, for the past 25 or more years, I
have essentially used nothing but GW basic ( or equivalent) to solve
equations and redundant algorithms. Even for simple calculations. I have
used just plain C a few times, but I always go back to GW Basic. It works
for me, and I understand it. I guess I am as much of a dinasour as some of
these machines. Regards - Mike




Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell NJ, 07731
(732) 901-9193


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Imlac assembler almost ready...


> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> > On Friday, September 13, 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> > > A Windows machine would be the most practical host.
> > I suggest you make it platform-independent (e.g. Java).
>
> Want PORTABLE?
> FORTRAN.
>
> "FORTRAN is more portable than syphilis" -Dijkstra
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 15:52:01 BST