Janus programming language for CP/M-86

[David Griffith]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Mark Davidson wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I came across a set of disks labeled "Janus CP/M-86 Compiler", "Janus
>> CP/M-86 Linker" and "Janus CP/M-86 Support" from RR Software.  I presume
>> these have nothing to do with the Janus lanuage created in 1990[1], but
>> instead has something to do with reversible computing, if Wikipedia is
>> accurate on this.  How rare is this find?
>
> RR software produced (and still produces) Ada compilers.  Janus was
> their implementation for (I believe) a subset of the Ada language.
>
> I'd say finding this for CP/M-86 is pretty rare.

I found their website just now -- interesting.  If anyone associated with 
a museum wants these disks (I'm looking at you Al Kossow), please let me 
know and I'll donate them.  Otherwise, it goes on ebay.


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David Griffith
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