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In article <49...@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, Jack Campin writes:
>Well, there is still a site emas-a.ed.ac.uk, which suggests that it still
>runs EMAS, and if it runs EMAS there must be an IMP compiler to support it.

Yup, EMAS still runs there, on an NAS machine. It's being retired at the
end of this academic year, though, and that'll be the last EMAS machine gone.
(Kent used to run EMAS on their ICL machines, but they were replaced by a
VAX cluster  a few years ago.)

IMP lives on, though; there's a compiler now for various UNIX machines,
notably Gould NP-1 and Sequent Symmetry.

Interesting IMP folklore-y fact... all IMP keywords begin with %-signs. This
is because, as an Algol derivative, the keywords are actually in a different
notional alphabet, which was originally denoted by their being underlined.
The % is a holdover from the old text formatter they used... %word gave "word"
underlined. This also explains the tendency of some Edinburgh folk to lend
emphasis to words %like %this.

-- Paul (sometimes ERC...@emas-a.ed.ac.uk)
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Paul Dourish, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge UK   <Dourish.EuroPARC.Xerox.com>

           "Ain't they got no barbers where you come from, boy?"