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Steve Jacobs writes:

>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."

Hmm.  I know this compiler well, we use it every day.  We paid real money
for it and signed licenses, etc.  (in 1985).  I suspect that the swap tape
copy mentioned above was quite illegal !  (After all, Logitech sold the same
thing, without the sources, as a product.)

Grant Guenther