850957 9-SERIES 920/930 FORTRAN II SYSTEM (STAND ALONE) AUTHOR: XEROX ABSTRACT: THIS IS THE STAND-ALONE 920/930 FORTRAN-II PACKAGE CONSISTING OF COMPILER, LOADER AND RUN-TIME/LIBRARY COMMENTS: SOURCE LANGUAGE:SYMBOL. SIZE 4096 DECIMAL. THIS PROGRAM COVERS 850938,850959,850960. SEE MANUALS 900587, 900 SERIES FORTRAN II OPERATIONS, 900003. 900 SERIES FORTRAN II REFERENCE MANUAL AND 901048, 900 SERIES FORTRAN II TECHNICAL MANUAL. CONFIGURATION: ANY 920/930 COMPUTER.
This directory contains material having to do with the Stand Alone Fortran II system from the M300_19820128.tap file, catalog number 850957-84.
You may obtain the four parts of the Fortran II (Stand Alone) System, the Compiler (fort), Loader (fldr), Library (flib) and Runtime (frun), by splitting the 850957-84 file using head and tail and identifying the length of each section using tools/sds_bindmp. These files have been included here for your convience.
The 850957-84 file is composed of four sections delimited by Standard Binary Object End records and library catalog cards.
- The Compiler, preceeded by a two card loader and terminated by an end record.
- The Loader, preceeded by a two card loader and terminated by an end record.
- The Library with 55 object decks, each preceeded by a catalog record and terminated by an end record (exept the last). The catalog record is a Hollerith BCD image beginning with the characters ^2 folowed by spaces and a file name. The last object deck has a catalog record with the file name SYS777 and has no end card.
- The Runtime program, preceeded by a two card loader and (supposedly) terminated by an end record. (See problem 2. below)
Consult the Fortran II Operations Manual, 900587, for operating instructions for compiling and loading programs.
There are two problems with the 850957-84 file extracted from both the M300_19820128.tap and M400_19820305.tap files.
1, Three of the library files have out of order records. I used xxd and vi to edit the files to straighten things out and the fld file in this repository is correct and loads ok. It appears that these problems occured when copying the original card decks to tape, perhaps cards were dropped and then put back into the deck incorrectly as some were in reverse order. A corrected version of the library was saved as flib_corrected and the original, uncorrected version of the library is found in flib_original.
2, The runtime program is missing the last several data records and the end record. The missing end record was corrected but I could not find the missing data records. This file was saved as runtime_ldr. A version of a runtime program based on the source code in the Fortran II Technical Reference Manual, (900065) is included as frun.si, frun.bo and frun.lo for experimenting. This is notably different than the corrupted runtime program on the PAL trap but it will load and begin execution of the simple.si example.
There are three command files for use with the Fortran II SA System. Use the fort or fort_ascii command files to run the compiler with either Hollerith or ASCII format input, and save the binary object deck output from the attached cp device.
Use the fortran_run command file to load and run a binary object deck loaded with files from the flib and the frun.bo runtime. Since frun.bo is not preceeded by a loader the command file includes ldr_2crd preceeding frun.bo in the input deck.
A simple HELLO WORLD example is included as hello.f with output from its execution in hello_sample. Note that there is a halt at location 5 after the load map is printed. Clear this halt by branching to location 1 to continue, then type c to continue after loading is completed to execute the program. The program currently doesn't print the HELLO WORLD message. Maybe you can figure out why?
The program fiiexample.f is also included.
The Fortran II system depended on the operator to manage cards in the reader and punch. The simulator does not close and flush input and output on those devices just because the program has halted so its up to you to reset devices or quit the simulator as necessary.