Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!cmcl2.nyu.edu!gottlieb From: gottlieb@allan.ultra.nyu.edu (Allan Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Bendix G15 (was weird word lengths) Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 17:00:01 GMT References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <12857@encore.Encore.COM> <27527@bellcore.bellcore.com> Sender: notes@cmcl2.NYU.EDU Organization: New York University, Ultracomputer project Lines: 21 In-reply-to: mo@messy.bellcore.com's message of 4 Oct 90 12:19:02 GMT In article <27527@bellcore.bellcore.com> mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes: Best place to look is the old bit-serial wonders like the venerable Bendix G15 I never programmed one; just admired people who did. Funny I didn't feel so admirable. I attended a saturday program run by Columbia University for high school students in 1962(+-1) and we programmed the G15 a little. I don't remember anything about the assembly or machine language but do remember how one ran a program written in FORTRAN. First you punched a paper tape with your source. Then you read in the tape containing first pass of the compiler and then your source. EVENTUALLY the output of the first pass was punched out on paper tape. You then read in the second pass tape and the output tape from pass one. I believe there were several passes. At long last your answers appeared on, I believe, a typewritter-like machine. Needless to say you desked checked your program carefully. -- Allan Gottlieb gottlieb@nyu.edu