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From: wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius)
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Subject: Re: 40 year old compilers
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glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Someone in comp.lang.c is interested in understanding how a 40 years
> old C compilers works, but doesn't know much about compilers.

How good is the interested party in reading assembler. The 7094 emulator
comes with ithe Fortran compiler, more than fifty years old as of this
date.
http://www.piercefuller.com/oldibm-shadow/709x.html