Post by RobertI first learned Algol on a pdp10 and I'm almost certain that I later
used it on a Vax 780 in the early 80's but I've been unable to find any
references to Algol on VMS. Am I wrong or was it indeed available and
if so are there any copies of it available anywhere?
I've never heard of an ALGOL implementation for VAX/VMS or OpenVMS. Not
from DEC, et al.
Search finds no (old) references to ALGOL here in the comp.os.vms
newsgroup, either.
The ALGOL Wikipedia page lists various implementations, one of which is
S-algol, which might work on an OpenVMS platform with JVM available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-algol
Targeting one of the OpenVMS freeware archive hosts for ALGOL information...
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:digiater.nl+algol
...finds a few references to PDP-10 emulation, and potentially with ALGOL.
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vmslt01a/vu/retromuseum.html
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vmslt02b/vu/pdp10emu.html
These with broken links, but maybe you can use filenames from those
broken links as search targets for more info, as ALGOL is your quest.
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