> 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
