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- From: gardner_c@apollo.hp.com (Cal Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Double length integer arithmetic
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:22:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.015133.18469@afterlife.ncsc.mil> dpmccul@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Dean McCullough) writes:
- >>The IBM 704-709 series, which were the machines for which Fortran was written;
- >
- >That is a strange statement, since I used Fortran on both the IBM 650
- >and the IBM 1620. Both of these machines predated the IBM 704.
-
- No way, Jose!! The 1620 comes well after the 704. No Fortran on the
- old 650. The 650 had its own Fortransit - Fortran
- like but not Fortran. BTW - the 1620 did all of its
- arithmetic via table-lookup. The multiplication and
- addition tables had to be loaded into the machine.
- Memory to memory operations and the mode was decimal.
-
- Cal gardner_c@apollo.hp.com
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