Fortran on the Vax: A First Course

Robert E. Roberson

Published by University of California San Diego, 1982

About this Item

1982 University of California (San Diego, California), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall spiral bound (black plastic comb) in blue printed covers, 16 chapters paginated separately. Moderate to heavy soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of creasing and curling to tips. Ink prior owner name and college bookstore price stamp to top margin of first page (contents). Highlighting to a handful of pages in the first couple of chapters. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare text. Associated computer printouts laid in. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP15~ [2.5P] Thorough instruction in creating and running programs in Fortran on the Vax, a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century. Particular emphasis is given to the VAX 11-780 computer, and the specific language used is Fortran 77, supplemented by a few comments on FORTAN IV at points of critical difference. Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Fortran was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, and subsequently came to dominate scientific computing. It has been in use for over six decades in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, geophysics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. Contents: Getting Started (Creating and Running a Program, Communication with the Computer); Programming Fundamentals; Transfer of Control; Repetition; Arrays; Formatting; Subprograms.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fortran on the Vax: A First Course
• Publisher: University of California San Diego
• Publication Date: 1982
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good