On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:05:47 +0100 Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote: > > > >> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in the 1950s and it > >> was some early calculators that killed slide rules. Slide rule killing didn't really start rolling until the late 1970s IIRC. Personally I still used one until the mid 80s but YMMV. > What kind of "processor" were they using? HP had their own proprietary processors for decades. They finally went to ARM, native for some models and emulation under ARM for others. I don't know enough about the TI line but later models used z80 and M68K. I believe the latest model(s) runs on ARM. > I'm not so sure there was real HLL before Adm. Hopper. Yes, there was, see below. > And no binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything from the '40s? > > > > HLL? I was talking about assembler... Anyway, I don't believe COBOL > > was the first HLL, though it certainly was fairly early. > > The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN. Lisp might have been the > second, but I'm not entirely sure. Yes, that seems to be the consensus. FORTRAN started in the mid 1950s, COBOL was released in 1959, PL/I in 1962. Although LISP was developed on IBM machines it wasn't an IBM product so I don't remember the exact date but IIRC it was in the 1958/1959 timeframe, so pretty much the same time as COBOL. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
