27 Jun
2026
27 Jun
'26
3:47 a.m.
It's a half-hour talk at an unusual but fun venue: the Electromagnetic
Field outdoor festival <https://www.emfcamp.org/> in Herefordshire, quite
close to Malvern where Flex was developed. It's a good place to find crowds
of people who want to geek out over things just like obscure research
operating systems from 40+ years ago. While the festival has been sold-out
for a long time now, the talk will be recorded, so I hope to do a good job!
What did you use the compiler to do?
--T
On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 9:57 PM Martin Bishop <
mjd.bishop(a)emeritus-solutions.com> wrote:
Public lecture ?
Where / When ?
Martin
PS I used the 68R compiler / run-time on ICL 1900 extensively in the 70's
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In a few weeks I'll be giving a talk and demonstration of Flex to a
technically well-informed but otherwise unfamiliar audience. I can
certainly fill the time with rich technical details and descriptions of
things like Algol 68 and the PERQ, but I'd like also to have more to say
about the circumstances that brought Flex about and the ways people
encountered it at the time. I'm also hoping to gather information that
might lead to a public release of Flex someday (another thing I've been
working on behind the scenes).
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