muller@src.dec.com (Eric Muller) (03/29/91)
SRC Modula-3
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A new release, version 1.6, of the SRC Modula-3 compiler and runtime are
available now. This is the fourth public release of SRC Modula-3. The
system was developed at the DEC Systems Research Center. It is being
distributed in source form (mostly Modula-3) and is available for public
ftp. You must have a C compiler to build and install the system.
NEW IN THIS RELEASE
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The primary changes since version 1.5 are:
- many bugs are fixed (in particular, installation bugs)
- additional library modules (more U**X bindings, pickles)
- it is easier to build shared libraries (by default on IBMR2)
- the system was ported to:
SUN3 running SunOS
Encore Multimax running UMAX 4.3 (R4.1.1)
Acorn R260 running RISC iX 1.21
in addition to the previous ports:
Apollo DN4500 running Domain/OS,
IBM PC running AIX/PS2,
IBM RT running IBM/4.3,
IBM R6000 running AIX 3.1,
HP 9000/300 running HP-UX 8.0
VAX running Ultrix 3.1
DECstation 3100 and 5100 running Ultrix 3.1
SPARCstation running SunOS 4.0.3
DISTRIBUTION
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The system is available:
- via anonymous ftp from 'gatekeeper.dec.com' [16.1.0.2],
- via uucp from decwrl
- via Easynet from DECWRL
Due to limited resources, we cannot distribute SRC Modula-3 in any
other form.
The SRC Modula-3 files are in '/pub/DEC/Modula-3'. Those files include:
% ls -R
README m3-1.6 report comp.lang.modula3
comp.lang.modula3:
README aug90.Z dec90.Z feb91.Z jan91.Z jun90.Z may90.Z oct90.Z
apr90.Z dec89.Z feb90.Z jan90.Z jul90.Z mar90.Z nov90.Z sep90.Z
m3-1.6:
README dist-1.6.tar.Z-02 dist-1.6.tar.Z-05 dist-1.6.tar.Z-08
dist-1.6.tar.Z dist-1.6.tar.Z-03 dist-1.6.tar.Z-06 dist-1.6.tar.Z-09
dist-1.6.tar.Z-01 dist-1.6.tar.Z-04 dist-1.6.tar.Z-07
report:
README Report.ps.Z Report1.ps.Z Report2.ps.Z Report3.ps.Z
The compressed tar file dist-1.6.tar.Z is about 4.6Mbytes. The entire
system requires about 35Mbytes of disk space to build and install.
CONDITIONS
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SRC Modula-3 is not a Digital Equipment Corporation product. It is a
research work which is provided ``as is''. We do not promise to fix
bugs, but we will try.
SRC Modula-3 is available without signing any license agreements. If
you chose to sign the commercial license, you will be able to use SRC
Modula-3 commercially. See the documents that are included in the
release for more information.
WHAT IS SRC MODULA-3 ?
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SRC Modula-3 includes a user manual, compiler, runtime library, core
library, pretty-printer, and a few other goodies. The libraries include
interfaces for X11R4, I/O streams, string functions, access to command line
arguments, random numbers, and operating system access.
The compiler generates C as an intermediate language and should be
fairly easy to port. Except for the very lowest levels of the thread
implementation, the entire system is written in Modula-3.
KEEPING IN TOUCH
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If you want to communicate with other Modula-3 users, you can post
articles to the comp.lang.modula3 Usenet newsgroup. If you do not have
access to this newsgroup, you can send a message to
m3-request@src.dec.com
to be added to the relay mailing list. Messages sent to
m3@src.dec.com
are forwarded to the newsgroup and to the members of the relay mailing
list.
If you want to communicate with us, please send your message to
m3-request@src.dec.com
We may also be reached at:
Systems Research Center
130 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Enjoy,
Bill Kalsow and Eric Muller
REFERENCES
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[1] The Modula-3 Report (Revised),
L. Cardelli, J. Dohnaue, L. Glassman, M. Jordan, B. Kalsow, G. Nelson,
DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA and
Olivetti Research Center, Menlo Park, CA, Nov 89.
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