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Archive of entries posted on June 2005

Slide Rules

(via email) Derek’s Virtual Slide Rule Gallery (A gallery of clickable simulated slide rules) I guess Alan Turing was right — you really can emulate any computer on any other computer.

Algol 60

I recently stumbled upon NASE A60, an open source Algol 60 interpreter. Having learned a more “modern” Algol (on Burroughs computers in the early/mid 80′s), I think it’s kind of neat to revisit this language, which, according to The Retrocomputing Museum, is “the common ancestor of C, Pascal, Algol-68, Modula, Ada, and most other conventional [...]