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Can someone please explain what this is good for and whether it is purely of historical interest? It sounds interesting but the readme isn't shedding much light
by wakawaka28 2y ago
Can someone please explain what this is good for and whether it is purely of historical interest? It sounds interesting but the readme isn't shedding much light on it.
- basementcat 2y agoACK is a compiler suite (perhaps analogous to gcc). Kevin Jordan maintains a fork of ACK that generates code for the Cray X-MP, a member of a family of famous vector supercomputers. As much of the original software for the Cray family has been lost, this ACK fork may be the only remaining way to program a Cray X-MP (running COS) in a high level language. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP You may be able to run generated executables in an emulator or online. http://www.nostalgiccomputing.org/ http://www.nostalgiccomputing.org/ https://github.com/andrastantos/cray-sim https://github.com/andrastantos/cray-sim
- wakawaka28 2y agoThanks!