Re: Wave that shook the world
On 2005-12-28 16:54:30 -0400, Thomas Koenig <Thomas.Koenig@xxxxxxxxx> said:
Ken Plotkin <kplotkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which compiler did you use that enforced upper case?
A compiler for a Siemens/Fujitsu 7881 (hope I have that number
right) running BS/3000, a MVS clone. This machine had a whooping
total 32 MB main memory (although only 16 MB were available to
any single job, because of the 24-bit address restriction).
I _think_ the Siemens/Fujitsu VP 400 that I started working on in
the late '80s had the same restriction, but I'm not sure.
I had heard of the same restriction on other PlugCompatibles
(mainframe clones) but the excuse was always that they were
still using a very early Fortran because "they" would not pay
the license fees for a current one.
I always took it to more a comment that new versions of the
operating system had not broken the old compilers.
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