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Language peer sets for A9:
Australia↑
Australia/1959↑
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1950s languages ↑
Second generation↑
Early Cold War↑
Genus Low-level Autocoders ↑
Numerical Scientific ↑
Low-level Autocoders↑
Autocoders↑
US historic algorithmic systems ↑
Low-level Autocoders/1959↑
Autocoders/1959↑
US historic algorithmic systems/1959↑
Low-level Autocoders/Australia↑
Autocoders/Australia↑
US historic algorithmic systems/Australia↑
Numerical Scientific ↑
Numerical Scientific/1959↑
Numerical Scientific/au ↑

A9(ID:2774/a::007)

Interpreter for SILLIAC 

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Country: Australia
Designed 1959
Published: 1959
Genus: Low-level Autocoders
Sammet category: Numerical Scientific

A9 interpretive programming system for the SILLIAC, Australia's ILLIAC
"A floating point interpretive scheme (called A9 because it used SILLIAC subroutines A1 - A8) was constructed in less than a week to demonstrate programming for a group of teachers. (This system attracted a large following and a compiler group was later constructed for the KDF9 to run A9 programs - 300 times faster than on SILLIAC."


Hardware:
References:
  • Bennett, John M (1994) Bennett, John M "Computer Science at the University of Sydney 1953-1986" BasserNet Volume 3, Number 6, December 1994. Basser Department of Computer Science U of Sydney BasserNet back issue Extract: A9
  • Dakin, Robert (1998) Dakin, Robert "a matter of interpretation" Sixteen Bits, July 1998 Extract: A9 compiler
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