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From: drc@cs.brown.edu (David R. Chase)
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Subject: Re: Whither Modula3
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Date: 7 Mar 90 17:23:31 GMT
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abrodnik@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) writes:
>Moss@cs.umass.edu writes:
>>I think the Olivetti folks will let us know if/when it [release of
>Olivetti M-3 to public domain] happens, but they are
>
>I heard somewhere that the Olivetti group does not exist any more? :-)

Well, yes and no.  About 20 people were laid off, six remain.  Call it
what you want.  All the people associated with Modula-3 at Olivetti
were included in the lay-off, but we keep in touch with each other.
The DEC system is still available, and (when we're not hunting jobs
and frantically fulfilling prior commitments (writing papers,
reviewing papers, arranging to go or miss conferences)) at least one
ex-Olivetti person is willing to give (perhaps unwanted)
implementation advice.

There's also a possibility of redistribution by licensed sites -- I'm
not sure what the license says about that.  The FTP directory
<secret-directory-name> should contain all the work from CA (Mick and
Trevor were in England at the time) up to about 10 am, Feburary 15,
though it'll be a bit hard to decode what is in the hastily assembled
tar files (Marion was working on the Modula-3 interface to Mach
cthreads, I was about to test a new version of the backend, all of
this hosted on '386 machines running Mach).

David