> On Aug 11, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Mark Kahrs <mark.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I assure you Chuck, I do know the original B5500 ALGOL having written my > first program on one. > > For those of you who might be interested, I sent a listing of the B6700 > ALGOL compiler source code to the CHM.
Did it end up online somewhere? I did find a copy of the B6500 ESPOL compiler online recently. > I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Burroughs extensions to ALGOL to > optimise|ize the use of the native string instructions. Did Algol come after the hardware? I always thought of the hardware as having been customized for their Algol, but admittedly I don’t actually know which is chicken and which is egg. paul