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From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson)
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Subject: Re: a68 (Algol 68) ?
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 05:57:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 05:57:36 1985
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> In looking at the Feb 1985 ;login:, published by USENIX, I see that the
> 1981 tape has something on it called 'a68'.  I am assuming that this is
> an Algol 68 compiler for some version of Unix.

I have previously seen the name "a68" associated with the 68000 assembler
written by Jim Gula (of MIT at the time) (and widely used by UniSoft).