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  1. Xref: sparky comp.lang.misc:4019 comp.arch:11602
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!relay!relay2!afterlife!dpmccul
  3. From: dpmccul@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Dean McCullough)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.arch
  5. Subject: Re: Double length integer arithmetic
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec13.015133.18469@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
  7. Date: 13 Dec 92 01:51:33 GMT
  8. References: <Bz1rFw.9s1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <8311@charon.cwi.nl> <Bz5DIs.2uH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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  12. >The IBM 704-709 series, which were the machines for which Fortran was written;
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  14. That is a strange statement, since I used Fortran on both the IBM 650
  15. and the IBM 1620.  Both of these machines predated the IBM 704.
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