Article: 21896 of alt.folklore.computers From: "George R. Gonzalez" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Seeking the CDC RUN Compiler Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:41:42 -0500 Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <3d40940f$1_3@news.iglou.com> Reply-To: "George R. Gonzalez" X-Trace: laurel.tc.umn.edu 1027698210 29276 160.94.124.25 (26 Jul 2002 15:43:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@laurel.tc.umn.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hardy.tc.umn.edu!laurel.tc.umn.edu!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.folklore.computers:21896 "Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote in message news:3d40940f$1_3@news.iglou.com... > and somewhere, I though I saw that MNF (Minneasota) was based on it, MNF had roughly the same philosophy as RUN, i.e. a fast one-pass compiler for instructional use, but I think it started from scratch, all done by one very smart fella, James Mundstock. I can still imagine him sitting at the console and typing "IDENT MNF" "ENTRY MNF". Many years ago I had a job to "tweak" MNF to make it work better with 6/12 bit characters. It was a bear to modify. It was about a foot-thick printout, all in very clever COMPASS assembly language. One monolithic piece-- It took over 5 minutes of assembly time on a Cyber 172. Luckily the 172 was still in shakedown-mode that summer, so we had it all to ourselves. >>although later versions appear to have been written in Pascal. You may be mentally conflating the CYBER Pascal project with the MNF project, both done in the 1970's at the U of Minn. Different folks, no shared code at all. Regards, George