Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!LAUCOSC.LAURENTIAN.CA!GRANT From: GRANT@LAUCOSC.LAURENTIAN.CA ("Grant R. Guenther") Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: VAX-11 Modula-2 (was DECUS Modula-2) Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 90 12:48:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Modula2 List Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Steve Jacobs writes: >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." Hmm. I know this compiler well, we use it every day. We paid real money for it and signed licenses, etc. (in 1985). I suspect that the swap tape copy mentioned above was quite illegal ! (After all, Logitech sold the same thing, without the sources, as a product.) Grant Guenther