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From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Info on GE-635
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.014342.12733@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
Date: 30 Jan 91 01:43:42 GMT
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In article <12828@hubcap.clemson.edu> mark@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mark Smotherman) writes:
>>   6)  What languages were available for it?
>The reference manual lists programming manuals for Fortran-IV and COBOL-61
>(plus it contains information on the assembly language, GMAP).

There were two main operating systems, GECOS or GCOS, and DTSS.  It is my
impression that the first C compiler ran on a 635 under GCOS.  Its predecessor
B certainly did.  DTSS was written at Dartmouth, where they implemented
zillions of languages -- everyone knows about Basic (which was a real
compiler, and generated quite respectable code so quickly that nobody bothered
to save object code) but they also had Fortran, Snobol, PL/I, Trac, Dynamo,
etc.

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