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From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
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Subject: Re: Copylefting
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Date: 1 Aug 89 01:58:46 GMT
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In article <1308@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes:
>Exactly.  Does anyone know what happened to TRAC (which is a trademark
>of some company), which Calvin Mooers well and thoroughly protected via
>copyright?
>
>	James Jones


Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" is out in a new edition.
In it he brings us slightly up-to-date, but I can't remember
many details.  TRAC is/was a trademark of Rockford Research.
Mooers has (or is with) a new company now, 
and has a new variation of the langauge too.
Anybody else know something more concrete?

TRAC was pretty cool, especially for the old 8-bit micros
with only 64K of memory.  A fairly complete and
efficient interpreter would fit in about 2.5K on a 6809.
I expect an interpreter on a modern system would be
really fast and fun.  I always though the system needed some way
to control name-scoping though.

Regards,
Preston Briggs