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<div dir="ltr">Been there. Done that. In space nobody can hear your sigh of disappointment. Sorry :)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">It’s particularly sad in that one of the developers in the original project died fairly recently.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I live in hope still that I can find the compiler I used.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 8 Apr 2020, at 22:59, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is also an Agol68 to C converter. I have never tried it. It is supposed to accept the Algol68RS dialect. If you search on the term "algol68 download" you should find it immediately.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:49 PM Thomas DeBellis <<a href="mailto:tommytimesharing@gmail.com">tommytimesharing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I believe Multics had an implementation. It's possible you might find <br>
something there.<br>
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This is a pointer to an Algol 68 preservation effort. Presumably, you've <br>
already chased a few of these down?<br>
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<a href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl</a><br>
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On 4/8/20 5:41 PM, Keith Halewood wrote:<br>
> That’s the one.<br>
> I’ve been in contact with the two companies that took over various aspects/projects from RSRE - DSTL and Altran UK - but the enquiries dwindled into silence as have several requests from universities I knew had the compiler back in the day, including my own
Liverpool.<br>
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> I haven’t quite lost hope but I’m getting there.<br>
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>> On 8 Apr 2020, at 22:24, Nigel Williams <<a href="mailto:nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com" target="_blank">nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:32 AM Keith Halewood<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:Keith.Halewood@pitbulluk.org" target="_blank">Keith.Halewood@pitbulluk.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Now if only someone could magically find a copy of the VAX/VMS Algol68 RS compiler, I'd be *so* happy.<br>
>> you mean this? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS</a><br>
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>> "The compiler was written in ALGOL 68, bootstrapped initially using<br>
>> the ALGOL 68R compiler."<br>
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