[Discuss] FORTRAN -> ???

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/23/2012 04:55 PM, Jay Kramer wrote:
>   Excuse me if this is a stupid question given the email chain.  Is it
> still possible to compile Fortran IV?   Will it run on linux?  I wrote a
> program in FORTRAN IV that uses overlays but other than that is straight
> forward code.
Strange. I have not heard of overlays being used in decades :-)
BTW: Before we had virtual memory, overlays were used to create a
smaller memory footprint in a fixed-memory system.

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