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- From: Andrew.Walker@nottingham.ac.uk
-
- I attach a compressed tar archive. In it you will find [with
- luck!] (a) two large [for the times!] binaries, the Algol RTE and
- compiler; (b) two assembler source file, loaders for the compiler
- and the RTE; (c) a test program in Algol; (d) copies of the articles
- I've posted on this topic in the last two or three days.
-
- The assembler stuff is heavily commented, and you may need to
- do some hacking or unhacking to get everything to work on your PDP-11s.
- You then need to assemble "a68.s" and "ago.s" into "a68" and "ago" resp;
- then "a68 lsquare.a68" will compile the test program into "a68.out" and
- "ago" [or "ago a68.out"] will run it. IIRC, you need to put the large
- binaries in specified places, or else hack "a68.s" etc to match where
- they actually are.
-
- The assembler and articles include some vague and ancient contact
- points. You could possibly get source from one of them; personally, I
- can't quite work up the energy to chase it. As noted in the articles,
- I don't know what the restrictions might be -- I have no recollection at
- all of how this stuff arrived on our machine, but it was probably via
- QMW [Queen Mary College, London] in some form or another. I'd expect it
- to be freely available for academic purposes, and certainly *we* have
- signed no special agreements [unlike the ones for the Amsterdam Compiler
- Kit and Malvern Algol 68 compilers, for which I had to sign in blood],
- so I am happy to pass it on as a academic activity -- but I have no
- reason at all to suppose that it is public domain [so you might need to
- be slightly careful how you archive it].
-
- See also http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb
-
- Andy Walker, School of MathSci., Univ. of Nott'm, UK.
- anw@maths.nott.ac.uk
-