[TUHS] B Source Code

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Sep 15 13:59:57 AEST 2017


On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> Interesting factoid: The PDP-11 initially used a threaded FORTRAN 
> implementation. In line with the observation above (about a new virtual 
> machine), DEC actually looked into writing microcode for the -11/60 
> (which had a writeable control store) to implement the FORTRAN virtual 
> machine.

Did anyone actually use the WCS?  I had visions of implementing CSAV and
CRET on our -60, but never did get around to it.  Too late now...

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