Infocom on PDP-11

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Infocom on PDP-11
>   From: Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>
>   Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>

>As far as sophistication goes -- a better measure than simply how
>clever or nifty a thing is -- how far did it advance the state of
>the art?  Good Algol's in the early 1960's look like stuff robbed
>from the far-flung future. A lot of the "compilers" from that era
>we'd today call p-code interpreters (terminology changes) but man,
>Algol60 is neat stuff. (Not the bloated monster Algol68 (I think
>it was) became.

Having programmed in algol on the PDP-8 back when it was a real 
eye opener for a new basic programmer.  The PDP-8 Timeshare didn't
know strings.


Allison