Infocom on PDP-11

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Wed May 11 08:54:13 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Allison" == Allison  <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> writes:

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

Standard Algol 60 doesn't either -- it has string constants but not
string variables.  Those are a Burroughs extension, and PDP-8 Algol is
a Burroughs Extended Algol subset.

  paul



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