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From: rnews@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula compiler for SGI IRIS
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Date: 1 Oct 90 11:17:45 GMT
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In article <31227@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, arnold@freezer.it.udel.edu (frederick arnold) writes:
> 2) I saw the far larger Modula-3 directory.  Does anyone know what the diffs
> are that make it take up 5meg as opposed to the 1/2 meg modula-2 two
> files?  Is it a better compiler, or just more documentation.
> Referring back to the first question, is there any more complete
> documentation on that compiler than the rather spotty release notes
> that came with it?

Modula-3 is quite different to Modula-2, it is an Object Oriented extension
to another extension to M2.  Talk to the people at DEC for the M3 Report
if you want more info.

> 3) failing the workings of either 1 or 2, does anyone have the
> location of a good pd Modula-2 compiler that would run on an SGI Iris,
> running Irix 3.2.2 (sysV variant, with Berzerkly 4.2 extensions).

No, but we can sell you a good optimizing one if you want :-).

Au revoir,

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