On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:12:12 +0100, <blstuart at bellsouth.net> wrote:
In message <op.sno3dpaxisslla at
yngve.home.norbionics.com>,
=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?
= writes:
Hm - yes, I remember he got sidetracked by
typesetting problems.
It took a very long time before it hit the bookstores. I think we were
writing MIX-simulators based on mimeographed excerpts, I did not get the
book until long after I left university.
Was it a translation issue? Volume 1 was originally published
in 1968.
No, we did not use translations. It was more a question of how things were
done at the University of Oslo.
It was customary to publish a compendium for each course, at least for
those new subjects which did not have good enough textbooks yet. Those
eventually developed into books.
I'm not sure of the chronology here. I think the MIX project was on the
CDC-3300. We got one of the first CDC-3300s made, but I do not remember
the date. It would have been around the time Volume 1 was being finished,
I guess.
I know the Simula compiler was finished in 1969, and of course a
development version existed in 1967, but at first only on the UNIVAC. My
only involvment in the Simula project was to use the beta compiler and
dutifully reporting bugs, otherwise I was programming in Algol. That made
me very grateful to Knuth, because he had made a workable scheme to get
input and output in Algol 60.
--
Bj?rn