There's some lovely insanity in this little clip from The New Scientist of 30th March 1961.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zfzhCoOHurwC&pg=PA814&lpg=PA814&dq=gecom+ "general+compiler"&source=bl&ots=Ie9DIahUEa&sig=vd nVkt2UBL1jFKgb4cxdRiJ5TVE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB 6c-y3NjKAhUHXhQKHUXmAAUQ6AEIJTAD#v=onepage&q=gecom%20 %22general%20compiler%22&f=false
What led me to that page was the article on the GECOM General Compiler, which apparently translates ordinary English into computer program instructions.
There's a lot of interesting history in that copy of NS.
It belonged to a Mr Ainsworth according to the back cover.
The beryllium moderated reactor on the same page as the GECOM compiler never went critical.
And I'd assume that the nuclear turbojet is mouldering away in a disposal site somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J87
Dear me.
Here's the manual for GECOM II:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stut...e%20Manual.pdf
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zfzhCoOHurwC&pg=PA814&lpg=PA814&dq=gecom+ "general+compiler"&source=bl&ots=Ie9DIahUEa&sig=vd nVkt2UBL1jFKgb4cxdRiJ5TVE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB 6c-y3NjKAhUHXhQKHUXmAAUQ6AEIJTAD#v=onepage&q=gecom%20 %22general%20compiler%22&f=false
What led me to that page was the article on the GECOM General Compiler, which apparently translates ordinary English into computer program instructions.
There's a lot of interesting history in that copy of NS.
It belonged to a Mr Ainsworth according to the back cover.
The beryllium moderated reactor on the same page as the GECOM compiler never went critical.
And I'd assume that the nuclear turbojet is mouldering away in a disposal site somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J87
Dear me.
Here's the manual for GECOM II:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stut...e%20Manual.pdf
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