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

[Robert Jarratt]

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> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
> Behalf Of Robert Armstrong
> Sent: 14 April 2015 17:40
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> Subject: RE: [HECnet] PDP-11 Pascal or Modula-2?
> 
> >Are you sure that Modula-2 came from the PDP-11?  I don’t remember it
> there.
> 
>   The comments in the source for the VAX compiler say it was…
> 
> >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.
> 
>   Do you mean VAX or PDP-11?  Either way, I'm not surprised - the DEC-10
> Pascal was a modified copy of the 6000 version.  Somewhere I have the source
> for the PDP-10 compiler; it came from DECUS and DEC never offered an
> "official" Pascal for 36 bits AFAIK.
> 



Sorry to hijack this thread, but this reminds me. I would love to find ALGOL-68C that was implemented on the DECSYSTEM-20. Any chance anyone might have it? I believe it may have been on a DECUS tape, but I have not found it on any of the tapes I have looked at.

Thanks

Rob