Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: DECUS Modula-2 ??? Summary: What little I know Message-ID: <1990Feb6.054212.23255@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 6 Feb 90 05:42:12 GMT References: Reply-To: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 37 In article Modula2 List writes: >A recent message on INFO-M2 referred to a UseNet message (which did not >appear here): > >>In article <1990Jan24.061230.17825@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us > (Stephen Jacobs) writes: >>>The source of a modula 2 compiler is widely available through DECUS. It's >>>written in Modula 2 (of course), and is essentially the ETH compiler. So > >I attempt to keep track of Modula-2 compiler sources available at low cost. >I have never heard of one being in the DECUS library, so I tried to >follow this up with DECUS. The DECUS catalogue contains no reference to >a Modula-2 compiler. The staff at DECUS Canada in Toronto have never heard >of it either. Can anyone substantiate the claim made in the message above. >What machine is supposedly supported - or is this the old M-code compiler >(which is essentially useless) ? > >Grant Guenther grant@laucosc.laurentian.ca >Mathematics and Computer Science, Laurentian U., Sudbury, Canada I wanted to come up with a killer reference, but I couldn't find it in the DECUS library either. There's not a whole bunch of documentation about its origin, but here's what I know: This compiler appeared on a swap tape distributed at a DECUS Chicago LUG/ CART meeting about 1984 or 1985. The manual and sources are on the tape. It calls itself 'VAX-11 Modula-2'; the abstract at the front of the manual says "This document describes how to compile, link and execute Modula-2 programs on a VAX-11 under the VMS operating system. The VAX-11 Modula-2 Compiler is based on an implementation of Modula-2 for the PDP-11 developed by a group under the direction of Prof. N. Wirth at the ETH Zuerich." I was never particularly active in DECUS or the local chapter. I wasn't even the person who got the tape. It would be VERY difficult, given the way things work at my job, for me to make a copy of that tape (but possible, if all else fails). Perhaps someone active in Chicago area DECUS can give the providence of this package. Steve J.