A Compiler for Pocket Calculators

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(01-12-2017 07:44 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  I obtained a printout of this memo several years ago. The fellow, Deane Blazie, created a cross-compiler to develop HP-65 code (printed) from a BASIC-like program. The cross-compiler was written in PL/1 and ran on a Burroughs B6700 computer at the University of Delaware. Very interesting.

Here is a link to the memo.

memo

It would've been much more useful if he had listed the BASIC version of the compiler. I remember back in '78 there was a BASIC program that translated real BASIC programs to TI-59's AOS. I extended it to allow nested loops and a few other things. It worked really well and now I wish I had never gotten rid of it!

Tom L