Could we maybe change the subject headers here? Neither Fortran
nor IBM terminal controllers has anything to do with Algol :-)
ben via cctalk writes:
> Do any copies exist and what was the meduium?
Is anyone in touch with or know how to track down Chris Thompson?
It would be worth asking if he preserved the FLACC source code
anywhere? If it still lives, we could take a crack at getting it
running on MTS under simh. Dann
Paul McJones via cctalk writes:
> This sounds like FLACC (Full Language Algol68 Checkout Compiler) by Chris Tho
> mson and Colin Broughton:
Yes, that's the one. On MTS is lived in *FLACC.
--lyndon
[Oops. Forgot to cc the list the first time.]
Mike Parr via cctalk writes:
> Hello all.
> Here is a link to something I wrote - brief intro to Algol 68's background, a
> nd how to run it on Windows - with a toy IDE as well.
This triggers a fuzzy memory of an Algol 68 compiler running on
MTS at the U of Alberta, circa 1980. ISTR Chris Thompso
> Fascinating - and there was a video game made by Atari called Lunar
> Lander which also tried to put a LEM safely on the surface.
At the U of Alberta in the graphics terminal room in the General
Services Bldg., next door to the I/O room (pick up and drop
off cards and printouts from the MTS Amda
