> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dennis Boone > via cctalk > Sent: 03 August 2021 21:31 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Help reading a 9 track tape > > > It was intended to be a stop-gap, to be discarded when the ICL was > > replaced with PR1ME. However the PR1ME was benchmarked with Fortran > 66. > > When Pr1me Fortran 77 was delivered its performance was "pants" so the > > "stop gap" ICL compiler was ported to PR1ME... > > Wish we could find that Prime compiler. I think there were one or two > others, as well.
Well you could ask Silverfrost who now own it. I think a lot of Salford Pr1me software was lost. I wish I could find the X.25 software we wrote... > > De Dave
