Re: ee9 V2.0, the GNU Ada KDF9 emulator

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

<robin.vowels@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 12:34:11 PM UTC+11, Bill Findlay wrote:
>> <r.nospam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 2:11:52 PM UTC+11, Bill Findlay wrote:
>>>> .. is now available for OSX, Windows, Linux 32 & 64 bit, and Raspberry Pi,
>>>> at:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.findlayw.plus.com/KDF9/#Emulator
>>> 
>>> The URL says :
>>> "KDF9 was one of the first computers to support Algol 60, ..."
>>> 
>>> In fact, the implementors of the KDF9 Algol compiler
>>> adapted that compiler to run on DEUCE, before the KDF9 was available,
>>> in order to test the design.
>>> (you might recall that the KDF9 was running late).
> 
>> And you might recall what "one of" means.
>> 
>> The website at the URL also says: "[the KDF9 Algol project] engendered
>> Algol 60 implementations on many other computers, including the EE DEUCE,
> 
> DEUCE Algol PREceded KDF9 Algol, as I said.
> The X1 Algol compiler (1961, if not earlier) preceded KDF9
> [and upon which the KDF9 Algol was based].

I am fully aware of those facts and they do not contradict anything I have
said or implied.

> And you might recall that "engendered" is the term used,
> and does not list other Algol implementations.

?? then what are these:

>> the Ferranti Pegasus, the NPL ACE, the EE KDF6, the Soviet Minsk range, the
>> EE System 4/50, the IBM System 360/25, the Phillips PRS8000, the Elliott
>> 903, and the Indian ECIL TDC-316."
> 
> Some of these post-date KDF9 Algol.

You don't say!

> ACE - 1955

the NPL ACE did not exist in 1955. Perhaps you confuse it with the Pilot
ACE,
which did not have an Algol compiler.

You seem remarkably keen to pick a fight over something I did not say.

As it happens I have personal contact with Brian Randell, one of the
authors of DEUCE/KDF9 Algol and am well aware of its history.

Had you investigated my website instead of jumping to peevish conclusions, 
you would have found a DEUCE Algol document dated 1963, some months 
before the first KDF9 was delivered.

This is my last communication on the subject, as I refuse to stroke your
ego with any further attention. 

Anyone looking for accurate information on KDF9 Algol, approved by one of
its authors, can consult my website.

-- 
Bill Findlay