[comp.os.minix] Modula-2, Pascal

jmw@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (John Williams) (08/14/89)

Are there any Modula-2 or Pascal compilers which will run under Minix
(Atari ST)? Nothing fancy, just something suitable for learning
the essentials of programming.

Thanx,

John M Williams
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (08/20/89)

In article <993@diemen.cc.utas.oz> jmw@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (John Williams) writes:
>Are there any Modula-2 or Pascal compilers which will run under Minix
>(Atari ST)? 

There is a Pascal compiler for MINIX PC available with all the source code.
It is written largely in Pascal, so if you could find another Pascal compiler
you could perhaps compile it to 68000 binary and then try to port it to
MINIX.  This would require linking it with the MINIX library and system calls,
but the compiler doesn't do anything more than read and write, so it might
be feasible.

The compiler is available from Transmediair and UniPress.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)