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From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston L. Bannister)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: Re: Public Domain Modula 2 for Unix V
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Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 16:56:18 EDT
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Reply-To: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston L. Bannister)
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>> I have heard that there is a single pass Modula 2 compiler which is in
>> the public domain.  I read about it in INFO-AMIGA where a guy said he
>> was porting it to the Amiga PC.  I would like to know if anyone has
>> ever ported it to a 68000 Unix V system or if there are any other
>> public domain Modula 2 compilers for Unix systems.  Any pointers would
>> be appreciated.

Er, I think a little confusion has been generated here.

Prof. Niklaus Wirth (and company) have developed a one-pass Modula-2
compiler.  There is a version for the Motorola 68000, National
Semiconductor 32000, and (probably) the Lilith.

You can license the SOURCE to the one-pass compiler from Modula
Corporation (in the US) or from ETHZ (elsewhere) for $1000 (US).

Some students at ETHZ wrote the necessary supporting modules
(file/operating system-type stuff) to port the compiler to the Amiga
and posted the BINARY to the net.  (I seem to remember something about
a Macintosh version also.)

Unless I'm greatly mistaken, the one-pass Modula-2 compiler developed
in Zurich is NOT public domain.

BTW, we are working on porting the compiler to our company's 68000/Unix
product (for internal use) using the Cambridge Modula-2 system as an
intermediate step.  If someone else out there is working on the same
problem, perhaps we can compare notes?

(Now if someone would port the one-pass compiler to my Atari ST... :-)

>>                               Chuck Ferguson

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