[Info-vax] Algol for VMS?

Robert not at displaying.it
Tue Jan 12 15:09:49 EST 2021


On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:56:48 -0800 (PST), "Mike T."
<mike632t at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 7:23:09 PM UTC, Robert wrote:
>> 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?
>
>There was at least one ALGOL68 compiler on VAX/VMS.  
>
>I first came across it while studying for my degree at London University, and then again several years later while working for an organisation that included RSRE.  I don't think they were the same version, the first time would have been around 1985 while the latter was around 1994.

Thank goodness someone else remembers it. I thought my memory had
failed (well it does have some bit rot of course, but perhaps not that
bad).

Shame there doen't seem to be any copies around the www.



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