[HECnet] ALGOL 68 RS?
Thomas DeBellis
tommytimesharing at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 14:48:44 PDT 2020
I believe Multics had an implementation. It's possible you might find
something there.
This is a pointer to an Algol 68 preservation effort. Presumably, you've
already chased a few of these down?
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl
On 4/8/20 5:41 PM, Keith Halewood wrote:
> That’s the one.
> 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.
>
> I haven’t quite lost hope but I’m getting there.
>
>> On 8 Apr 2020, at 22:24, Nigel Williams <nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:32 AM Keith Halewood
>> <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
>>> Now if only someone could magically find a copy of the VAX/VMS Algol68 RS compiler, I'd be *so* happy.
>> you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS
>>
>> "The compiler was written in ALGOL 68, bootstrapped initially using
>> the ALGOL 68R compiler."
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