[HECnet] PDP-11 Pascal or Modula-2?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Apr 14 09:36:18 PDT 2015


On 2015-04-14 18:34, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
>
>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com
>> <mailto:bob at jfcl.com>> wrote:
>>
>>   Does anyone have the sources (I need the sources, not just binaries)
>> for either the PDP-11 Pascal or Modula-2 compilers?  It’s probably on
>> some DECUS tape somewhere, but I’m hoping someone can save me the
>> trouble of searching.
>>   BTW, I have the sources (and working binaries) for the VAX/VMS
>> Modula-2 compiler if anybody wants it.  The VAX version was adapted
>> from the PDP-11 version, and I’d like to find the original if I can.
>
> Are you sure that Modula-2 came from the PDP-11?  I don’t remember it there.
>
> The VAX Pascal compiler was adapted from the ETH Pascal compiler for the
> CDC 6000 mainframes; the generated code from VAX Pascal V1 made this
> blatantly obvious.

I have Modula-2 for RSX. Unfortunately no sources, and I think 3 files 
are missing... :-(

	Johnny



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