Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 28/02/2025 19:22, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/02/2025 12:26, c186282 wrote:

A lot of mini-computers were 16 bit around the
   time microprocessors came out, so "half a mini"
   maybe kinda sounded logical.
>
   Should be a fair number of the decision-makers
   from the 60s-70s still alive. If anybody knows
   some, ASK.

Well an old friend of mine was involved in a small 16 bit minicomputer years ago.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digico_Limited

If they founded DIGICO in 1965 they could not have been ex-ICL;
ex-ICT at most, contrary to Wikipedia.

 IIRC it was all TTL, as CMOS hadnt come in.
They never made the transition to CPU chips as such. When I knew them around 1975
 I am not sure what happened to them after that.

I seem to remember them proposiing an ambitious successor design
with many bells and whistles.
Perhaps they fell victim to the second system effect.
--
Bill F.