Re: Fortran question

We never had Fortran for the System/38, but it was added early in the life
of the CISC AS/400.  It never made it to RISC.

Al

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IBM had a  Fortran Compiler for the S/38and early AS/400. I had a
contract where there was a huge FORTRAN program provided by the American
Petroleum Institute used for correcting measures for temperature and
gravity, for asphalts and gasoline. (I think it was refered to as Table
6B or 7B conversion) Anyway, another contracter spent a month full time,
trying to convert to RPG. Problem was in precision of numbers, and he
never got it to work right.

I got handed the task. I keyed in the source code  SEU. Saved it to
tape, and visited my local IBM Branch. (Yeah, we had real IBM'ers in
their own building back then). Loaded it on their system with the
FORTRAN compiler. Compiled it, saved it off, and restored it to the
customers systwm. Worked like a champ.  And the OS converted it when we
changed releases, when necessary. It was there till I left, and I heard
it continued to run until the system was retired years later.



Trevor Perry wrote:

>I have a customer with a baby 36 - not the software.. but the small AS/400

>that was a S/36. They have one application written in FORTRAN which they
>would like to migrate to their iSeries.
>
>Any ideas? Anyone done this before??
>
>
>
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