5 Dec
2017
5 Dec
'17
4:59 p.m.
From: Charles Dickman <chd at chdickman.com>
Subject: PDP8 ALGOL
I have been looking at the available software for the PDP8,
particularly languages. I see there was an ALGOL. The source is
archived on Bitsavers and dbit.
There is some information here:
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol60impl/
Has anyone played with this before? Is there any additional
information on how to use it?
-chuck
I have looked at the 4k ALGOL described here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/decus/pdp8/8-213_4K_ALGOL.pdf
The paper tape images are here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp8/papertapeImages/set3/
The RICM also has an original set of the DECUS 8-213 ALGOL paper tapes, but
they are different from the ones on Bitsavers. I need to make images of
these tapes.
Students at the UMN are trying to get ALGOL to run on their PDP-12 so they
can run some benchmarking software.
We haven't been able to get DECUS 8-213 ALGOL working. Any help would be
appreciated.
--
Michael Thompson