Timeline for Was there ever a home PC which ran JOVIAL?
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| Apr 2, 2019 at 7:58 | vote | accept | Mawg | ||
| Sep 30, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | dirkt | Um, the Wikipedia page lists lots of CPU targets that are not 36+ bit word length, so clearly that is not a requirement. I had an Algol compiler for CP/M, so clearly an Algol-like language for 8bit homecomputers would have been possible. | |
| Sep 29, 2018 at 20:22 | answer | added | John Dallman | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 29, 2018 at 8:45 | comment | added | Mawg | That might almost count as a "NO". Feel free to post it as an answer. If no one can name such aPC, then I will award the "no" answer | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | JOVIAL compilers were available for the IBM 7090, CDC 1604, Philco 2000, and various military computers like the Burroughs D825 and the IBM AN/FSQ-7. What these seem to have in common is a 36+ bit word length. Was a DEC PDP-10-in-a-desktop ever produced? (The Heathkit H-11 is a 16-bit PDP-11 clone so that doesn't count.) | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 11:37 | comment | added | Mawg | BASIC in ROM _ truly, but not exclusive. See, for instance, the Jupiter Ace, with Forth in ROM. JOVIAL, as I have known it has always been compiled, but I did Google up one interpreted dialect. One person in the office still claims a PC with JOVIAL in ROM ... (I doubt it, though) | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 11:07 | comment | added | dirkt | If you mean "homecomputer" by "PC", an not "IBM PC", then as a rule these came with Basic in ROM. All other languages (and there were a lot of them) came on floppies. Googling shows that Jovial seems to be an Algol-like language, so it was very likely compiled. Which means chances of an existing homecomputer with Jovial in ROM are next to zero (certainly none of the better known ones did). It's quite possible there was an existing homecomputer with someone having a floppy with a Jovial compiler. And in that respect, it wouldn't have been that different from, say, Pascal. Or Ada. | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 8:07 | comment | added | Mawg | What I meant was that PCs in those days generally came with no operating system as such and an interpreted language - did any exist which ran JOVIAL as standard? Personally, I only know it as a compiled language, although there does exist an interpreted dialect | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 7:20 | comment | added | dirkt | I guess it depends on your definition of 'the PC ran language X". Was it standard software? Probably not. Did someone get a floppy from someone who implemented a compiler, maybe a custom compiler? Quite possible. | |
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