20 Mar
2018
20 Mar
'18
10:59 p.m.
Paul can correct me, but I don't think DEC even
developed a Pascal for TOPS originally - IIRC the one I used came from the universities.
I think the first Pascal sold was targeted for the VAX.
We made heavy use of
PASCAL on the TOPS10 system at JHU, but I don't know what the origin of it was.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't DEC. That shop wasn't overly innovative.
> but its character handling was awful.
> Yep - but as others have pointed out, with something like RATFOR it could be
made usable and that's what a lot of people I know did when they had too. As I
said, the FPS folks wrote a parallelizing, Fortran for the FPS-164 in Ratfor A compiler,
to me, is the definition if a character based application if I can name one.
Ratfor got you decent control structures but it didn't get around the fortran data
model suckage.
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