It seems nobody likes the 97

[johnb]

(05-24-2023 12:43 PM)KeithB Wrote:  I vaguely remember doing floating point operations in IBM 370 assembler at CalTech when I was in High School back in the seventies.

I was going to make a wisecrack about that having permanently warped you.

Then I remembered I had done the same thing in CDC Cyber 74 assembler at Ga. Tech when I was in high school back in the seventies.

The Cyber was one of the last designs Seymour Cray did for CDC before he left to found Cray Research. It was definitely a number cruncher but it had a very strange layout: 60-bit word and no concept of a "byte" anywhere in sight. And very strange (but math-efficient) register layout. Oh, and it used a 6-bit subset of ASCII, so if you did string manipulations in Fortran IV or assembler, you had 10 characters per word but no lowercase.

So, apologies in advance, I'm probably more warped than you!



(Hmm. Should I mention I've also done APL?)