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Paul
I used it on a pdp 11/40 running RT11 v5, the SJ monitor probably. 
The reason I was interested was that the university ran a B7700 at the time. 
Burroughs Algol is a superset of algol60 of course. It is still around on Unisys MCP systems. 

I still have a DECtape labeled ALGOL. No idea what’s on it though
Hans

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> Op 16 jul. 2018 om 18:50 heeft Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> het volgende geschreven:
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>> On Jul 16, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
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>> IIRC there was a port of an early Burroughs Algol compiler for RT11. 
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> Very loosely speaking.  You're referring to DECUS ALGOL, by Barry Folsom and Greg Hosler.  It implements a language that resembles Burroughs Extended Algol, and the output is a pseudo-machine binary that could be described as a 16-bit version of the Burroughs mainframe instruction set.  But I don't see any evidence that it was actually based on any Burroughs code.
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> I have the RSTS port of that thing (by Terry Grieb and myself); I haven't found the RT version, at least not the runtime library.
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>    paul
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