[cctalk] Re: "It's dead, Jim" Was: Re: Intel 3086

. . . Recently I submitted this lovely spaghetti bowl of FORTRAN IV with computed GOTO garnishings a few hundred-line chunks at a time to Gemini, as I was using the free version. (I removed the trailing line numbers first): https://bitsavers.org/components/fairchild/f8/cross-assembler/f8_xasm.for It ingested it, figured out by itself it was an assembler, and at my prompts produced a Python then a structured C# version. Along the way it asked if I wanted to add conditional assembly, macros and a bunch of other things and I just kept saying yes to the prompts. It produced samples of test code for many of the steps. The result still needs work but I was fairly impressed/bemused by it.