From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Mar 1 19:15:56 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 1570BC178DF; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:15:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.18 at www2.open-std.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:15:55 CET Received: from mail4.ukisp.com (mail4.ukisp.com [80.175.48.54]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EBCC178D9 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:15:55 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 21840 invoked by uid 399); 1 Mar 2010 18:09:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dellxps) (86.26.160.166) by mail4.ukisp.com with ESMTPM; 1 Mar 2010 18:09:13 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 86.26.160.166 From: "Ian D Chivers" To: "'fortran standards email list for J3'" , References: <20100301174456.8A65CC178D9@www2.open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20100301174456.8A65CC178D9@www2.open-std.org> Subject: RE: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4197) 43 Fortran compilers Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:09:07 -0000 Message-ID: <000301cab96a$4c768c70$e563a550$@chivers@chiversandbryan.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Acq5Zu2+jfe+MXy2Qj6TMzzc0020XQAAtjhA Content-Language: en-gb Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk I would be interested in knowing what they were. I worked at Imperial College from 1978-1986 On CDC kit mainly (6400, 6500, 170, 174) and we had CDC Fortran Minnesota Fortran As the main two supported Fortran compilers. I also vaguely remember a Waterloo Fortran. There was a CDC 1700 and I think that had a Fortran compiler. Would that have counted as another compiler? Cheers ian -----Original Message----- From: j3-bounces@j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces@j3-fortran.org] On Behalf Of David Muxworthy Sent: 01 March 2010 17:47 To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Subject: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4197) 43 Fortran compilers One or two people seemed surprised when I said at the WG5 meeting that there were 43 Fortran compilers in the early 1960s. The figure was taken from Oswald, H. (1964), 'The various Fortrans', Datamation vol 10 (August), pp 25-29. Oswald was reviewing 16 different Fortran systems. I think I also said outside the meeting that the first Fortran on a non-IBM machine was in 1961-2. In fact it was in 1960 on a Philco 2000, but not called Fortran. The first non-IBM 'Fortran' was on a Univac SS80 in 1961. David _______________________________________________ J3 mailing list J3@j3-fortran.org http://j3-fortran.org/mailman/listinfo/j3