Early Supercomputers And Disassemblers

Steve Jasik, Jasik Designs, Menlo Park

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Steve Jasik talks about the 1st supercomputers of the 1960's, the Control Data 6600 and 7600, and about the global disassembler MacNosy. Mr Jasik was associated with Control Data from 1967 to 1984 where he worked on the FORTRAN compiler, mostly the code optimizer. At the time the 6600 was the first computer with multiple functional units and a micro parallel architecture, it presented some unique problems for those who tried to generate code for it. In 1984 wrote the first global disassembler, MacNosy for then new Apple Macintosh computer.