Well as one of the aims as I understand it for Julia was as an alternate to Fortran.

You should consider your self lucky when I started the compile link process took a while and that is assuming you had real time access.

I recall one of my colleagues who was running her code on an ICL at AWE (Underwater Weapons Establishment) coming into the terminal room logging in and sighing "48 jobs in GEORGE ahead of hers.

A year later we brought a Pr1me Super Mini which made things a lot faster.