[Simh] Simh and historical Fortran in the news

[khandy21yo]

I know that there were some that did IBM one better. They destroyed the source for code that was still shipping.


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-------- Original message --------From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math.utah.edu> Date: 7/13/17  5:46 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: simh at trailing-edge.com Cc: beebe at math.utah.edu Subject: [Simh]  Simh and historical Fortran in the news 
There is an interesting new journal article published today about the
attempt to recover and reconstruct the first Fortran compiler.  Simh,
and some of the members of the SIMH list, get mention in the article.

@String{j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT  = "IEEE Annals of the History of
                                  Computing"}

@Article{McJones:2017:SOF,
  author =       "Paul McJones",
  title =        "In Search of the Original {Fortran} Compiler",
  journal =      j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT,
  volume =       "39",
  number =       "2",
  pages =        "81--88",
  month =        "????",
  year =         "2017",
  CODEN =        "ICGADZ",
  DOI =          "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2017.20",
  ISSN =         "0272-1716 (print), 1558-1756 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0272-1716",
  bibdate =      "Thu Jul 13 14:47:50 MDT 2017",
  bibsource =    "http://computer.org/cga/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/fortran3.bib;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/ieeecga.bib",
  URL =          "http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing",
  journal-URL =  "http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/magazines/cga",
}

The team's effort was not successful, but they did recover, and make
work, the Fortran II compiler from about 1959.

There were a number of IBM 704 customers who got a printed book
containing a listing of the original compiler, but no copies of that
book, known as ``The Tome'', have yet been found.

The article reports that it was IBM's practice to destroy code for
machines that were no longer manufactured.

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