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Language peer sets for READ: United States↑ United States/1953↑ Designed 1953 ↑ 1950s languages ↑ First generation↑ Early Cold War↑ Genus Other US historic ↑ Excluded from Sammet ↑ Other US historic↑ US historic algorithmic systems↑ Historic algorithmic languages ↑ Other US historic/1953↑ US historic algorithmic systems/1953↑ Historic algorithmic languages/1953↑ Other US historic/United States↑ US historic algorithmic systems/United States↑ Historic algorithmic languages/United States↑ Excluded from Sammet ↑ Excluded from Sammet/1953↑ Excluded from Sammet/us ↑ READ(ID:6498/rea003)Automatic translation system at GM Allisonalternate simple viewCountry: United States Designed 1953 Genus: Other US historic Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet Compiler system for the IBM 701 GM Rykman, , GM Allison research lab, 1954 "...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 |