On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 08:02 -0800, Clive Page wrote:
> Indeed. I can remember writing code in the Fortran66 days which had
> to run both on a PDP-8 (2 characters per default integer) and a CDC
> mainframe (10 characters per integer) which are probably the extremes
> of the range. I don't suppose my code was portable, but it was, with
> difficulty, possible to get it running on both of these even though it
> included a modest amount of character-handling.
The PFORT verifier from Bell Labs, a program that reported on
portability problems in FORTRAN IV programs, remarked on integers (or
reals) having more than two characters (or was it one?).
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