Wirth's first DEC Pascal Compiler

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Jun 18 07:46:00 2002

At 06:32 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Heinz Wolter wrote:
>They give this link to a Jensen Wirth interpreter- but it's dead
>ftp://ftp.threedee.com/usr/syndesis/p2.zip
>Finding the files pasint.pas and pascom.pas on a PDP10 tape
>from ETH Zurich would be starting point.

I haven't gotten around to setting up a good, safe anonymous
ftp server since I became an ISP. I will e-mail that file to you.
Below are messages from Wirth on this subject. As far as I know,
he's got the tape but no 7-track CDC to attempt to read it.

- John

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Subject: Source for early Pascal compilers?

Dear Mr. Foust,

I am sorry, but we don't have the source of the Pascal compiler any
longer. It was in use her until about 1980, at which time we switched to
Modula-2.

Sincerely, Niklaus Wirth

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To: jfoust_at_threedee.com
Subject: Source for early Pascal compilers?

It appears that I found an old tape. However, nobody can read it,
because it is a 7-track tape, and 7-track units have died out! Bad luck.
N. Wirth
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