[Info-vax] Algol for VMS?

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Tue Jan 5 16:04:16 EST 2021


On 2021-01-05 19:23:06 +0000, Robert said:

> I first learned Algol on a pdp10 and I'm almost certain that I later 
> used it on a Vax 780 in the early 80's but I've been unable to find any 
> references to Algol on VMS. Am I wrong or was it indeed available and 
> if so are there any copies of it available anywhere?

I've never heard of an ALGOL implementation for VAX/VMS or OpenVMS. Not 
from DEC, et al.

Search finds no (old) references to ALGOL here in the comp.os.vms 
newsgroup, either.

The ALGOL Wikipedia page lists various implementations, one of which is 
S-algol, which might work on an OpenVMS platform with JVM available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-algol

Targeting one of the OpenVMS freeware archive hosts for ALGOL information...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:digiater.nl+algol

...finds a few references to PDP-10 emulation, and potentially with ALGOL.

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vmslt01a/vu/retromuseum.html
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vmslt02b/vu/pdp10emu.html

These with broken links, but maybe you can use filenames from those 
broken links as search targets for more info, as ALGOL is your quest.




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