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Language peer sets for PRINT: United States↑ United States/1953↑ Designed 1953 ↑ 1950s languages ↑ First generation↑ Early Cold War↑ Genus Low-level Autocoders ↑ Numerical Scientific ↑ Low-level Autocoders↑ Autocoders↑ US historic algorithmic systems ↑ Low-level Autocoders/1953↑ Autocoders/1953↑ US historic algorithmic systems/1953↑ Low-level Autocoders/United States↑ Autocoders/United States↑ US historic algorithmic systems/United States↑ Numerical Scientific ↑ Numerical Scientific/1953↑ Numerical Scientific/us ↑ PRINT(ID:5446/pri003)Scientific calculation systemalternate simple viewCountry: United States Designed 1953 Genus: Low-level Autocoders Sammet category: Numerical Scientific PRINT - printing compiler for IBM 701 developed by Harroff and Fishman at GM Allison research lab, 1954. Part of a pair with READ "...Don F. Harroff, James J. Fishman, and I wrote a pair of 'compilers' (now called macroprocessors) that turned out to be instrumental in implementing that project in a timely manner. My compiler, simply called READ, accepted specifications on the several data items in a record in decimal or alphabetical form and converted them to an appropriate internal binary form. The compiled program read data from the card reader and recorded them on magnetic tape at the fantastic density of 100 bits per inch! The mountains of input cards for Project X required only about 20 reels of magnetic tape. Harroff and Fishman's compiler (called PRINT) did the inverse, converting data from binary to decimal or alphabetical form. The compiled program read data from magnetic tape and recorded it on the printer. Special programs had to be written to perform any given analysis of this 'huge' data base, but needless to say it was very impressive to get an answer to a question in hours versus the days it took to do the same task on tabulating equipment." Places Hardware:
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References: in [AOHC] (1983) Annals of the History of Computing, 05(2) April-June 1983 IEEE (IBM 701 Issue) Search in: Google Google scholar World Cat Yahoo Overture DBLP Monash bib NZ IEEE ACM portal CiteSeer CSB ncstrl jstor Bookfinder |