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In article <INFO-M2%90020515052294@UCF1VM.BITNET> 
Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> writes:
>Aubrey McIntosh asks:
>
>Sorry, didn't mean to start a war.  The copy I have of the M-code source
>contains neither an interpreter nor a linker.  There was a version available
>only in binary form (for PCs) with both, but it was terribly slow.
>
>Grant Guenther

I thought this went as e-mail.  Sigh.  I have the "c18" source, and the
"Provo" interpreter, which I believe to be the two products.  I agree that
they are slow under the interpreter.

I just didn't want to spend much time only to end up in some obscure corner
that you had already found out about.


I have disassembled (de-compiled) the entire version of Medos-2 supplied
with  the Provo interpreter, including the linking-loader.  I would like to
correspond with folks who have licenses to either the C18 compiler or who
have the provo interpreter.

I presume that I was the last person alive to actually use the interpreter.
I have run it through a spiffy disassembler (Sourcer) and compared it with
the Modula-2 interpreter given in the c18 license.  It is certain that
they are close kin.  I have a pencil/paper architecture for register use
on the 8088 that should substantially increase the speed of the interpreter.
There are some neat undocumented additions, such as execute native code
procedure, do RS-232 in/out, and others I've forgotten.

But then again, I have other M2 compilers now.

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Aubrey McIntosh        
comp.os.minix, comp.lang.modula2, soc.culture.celtic         
Austin, TX 78723 
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