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Magnus Olsson wrote:

> In article <3AC87FE0.92790C79@csi.com>,
> John Colagioia  <JColagioia@csi.com> wrote:
> >I have a "crack team of operatives" scouting for information on ZIL and MDL,
> You may be more lucky with MDL than with ZIL, since MDL was in use at
> academic sites; presumably, it was developed at MIT and in that case
> it should be possible to find the research reports etc, and perhaps even
> binaries (but then you'd need a PDP-10 emulator - see alt.sys.pdp10).

I had a break (which I'm not at liberty to discuss, yet) on the ZIL front, believe
it or not.  But, yeah.  One of "my agents" is interrogating MIT people for old
software.

And there were apparently two books on MDL printed by MIT press, now out of print,
which someone is helping track down for me.

If anyone happens to have anything lying around, of course, I'm not going to
refuse it or anything...


> >and am working on a C compiler in the meantime, to make sure I have the basic
> >concept of "Z-compiling" together.
>
> Great! Please let us know when the C compiler is finished.

Absolutely.

Naturally, it won't be ready for "prime-time IF," until someone writes parsers and
stuff, but the compiler, itself, should be easy enough, once I get going on that
track.

(Yes, now you all know one of the reasons I was looking into assembly...)


