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From: mjordan@src.dec.com (Mick Jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: language change wishes / Olivetti Modula-3 info needed
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Date: 29 Jan 91 23:00:05 GMT
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The Olivetti implementation has been cleared for distribution with a
simple copyright notice and no licence. However, there is no virtue
in distributing the original system since it offers no advantages
over the DEC SRC implementation at the level of the generated code.

The value of the Olivetti system is the AST-based compiler front-end
and other tools that are based on ASTs. This part of the system
(somewhat enhanced from the original distribution) will be made
available with the SRC distribution sometime during the first half of
this year.  You will need SRC Modula-3 V1.6 or later to compile it.

Mick Jordan