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Dan Simper
I found an old ENIAC on the flea-market and I want to program some
games for it in C.Is there a C - compiler for the ENIAC ?
games for it in C.Is there a C - compiler for the ENIAC ?
Dan said:I found an old ENIAC on the flea-market and I want to program some
games for it in C.
Is there a C - compiler for the ENIAC ?
Given your opinion of C, I doubt that.
Dan Simper said:I found an old ENIAC on the flea-market and I want to program some
games for it in C.Is there a C - compiler for the ENIAC ?
If you bought the famous ENIAC, no. That was not a stored program computer,
it was told what to do by means of patchboards and switches. And a C
compiler is, after all, a program. So there can be no compiler. ;-(
Is there any requirement that the C program, once translated, must be
run on a stored program computer with writable program memory? I think
ENIAC was before (at least usable) semiconductors, and I don't thinknot, so a C 'cross' compiler could be written which produced its
'executable' output in the form of switch and patch settings (or even
instructions where to solder diodes in a matrix!).
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