On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:33:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 5:10 PM Diane Bruce via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > ... > > He was lucky the card deck was in order. One of my first jobs was to read > in old, horrible FORTRAN IV from punch card, then check it against a > listing the boss had and edit to match... This was the same place we wrote
A dropped card deck was disaster and how many folks filled in columns 73 to 80 with an index? Not very many. :-( > malloc for FORTRAN and passed around all kinds of crazy data structures > that offset into the malloc arena so it would run on both the pdp-11 and > the vax... Ah yes the LARGE array with indexes used as pointers trick. *ugh* I remember. I also remember the implementation of Fortran on the university computer one could abuse the assigned goto and have it execute your own assembler code on the fly. ;) > > Warner > Diane -- - d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db