Yes. On the Unix Tree the first man page for it appears in V3.
The "Research Unix Reader" says it appeared in V2 and was written by Thomson and
Ritchie jointly.
Paul
On 7 Mar 2017, at 20:53 , Dan Cross wrote:
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Ron Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Dunno. The first I dealt with was the f77 based on the pcc backend.
Hmm. I've found the source code for that compiler (/usr/source/fort in the v6
distribution) but there doesn't seem to be an attribution. The man page seems to be
dated 8/20/73, but again lacks attribution; perhaps Ken wrote it?
- Dan C.
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of ron minnich
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] fortran compiler, in assembly, for pdp-11
I was not clear, evidently, although part of this is my memory's fault :-)
There was a fortran compiler on v6, written in assembly. I was wondering who wrote it.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:34 AM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I spent a year or so working on this in 1977. I was wondering who wrote it.
Funny but: I once had a compile fail on Motorola's MPL compiler, which was written
in fortran. It had so many continued comment lines that the 16-bit column number went
negative, and I got a fairly obscure error.
Anyone remember who wrote it?