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In article <INFO-M2%90020214283484@UCF1VM.BITNET> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> writes:
>A recent message on INFO-M2 referred to a UseNet message (which did not
>appear here):
>
>>In article <1990Jan24.061230.17825@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us
>        (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>>>The source of a modula 2 compiler is widely available through DECUS.  It's
>>>written in Modula 2 (of course), and is essentially the ETH compiler.  So
>
>I attempt to keep track of Modula-2 compiler sources available at low cost.
>I have never heard of one being in the DECUS library, so I tried to
>follow this up with DECUS.  The DECUS catalogue contains no reference to
>a Modula-2 compiler.  The staff at DECUS Canada in Toronto have never heard
>of it either.  Can anyone substantiate the claim made in the message above.
>What machine is supposedly supported - or is this the old M-code compiler
>(which is essentially useless) ?
>
>Grant Guenther                       grant@laucosc.laurentian.ca
>Mathematics and Computer Science, Laurentian U., Sudbury, Canada

I wanted to come up with a killer reference, but I couldn't find it in the
DECUS library either.  There's not a whole bunch of documentation about its
origin, but here's what I know:

This compiler appeared on a swap tape distributed at a DECUS Chicago LUG/ CART
meeting about 1984 or 1985.  The manual and sources are on the tape.  It
calls itself 'VAX-11 Modula-2'; the abstract at the front of the manual says
"This document describes how to compile, link and execute Modula-2 programs on
a VAX-11 under the VMS operating system.  The VAX-11 Modula-2 Compiler is 
based on an implementation of Modula-2 for the PDP-11 developed by a group
under the direction of Prof. N. Wirth at the ETH Zuerich."
    I was never particularly active in DECUS or the local chapter.  I wasn't
even the person who got the tape.  It would be VERY difficult, given the
way things work at my job, for me to make a copy of that tape (but possible,
if all else fails).  Perhaps someone active in Chicago area DECUS can give
the providence of this package.
                                    Steve J.