Gents,

I have set my teeth in Minix 3 (http://www.minix3.org) and I have
sacrificed one partition on Lithium in favor of the Minix system.

To say the least: this is interesting. For one, since it comes, as a
standard, with a full fledged Modula-2 compiler.

In fact, it's a five headed compiler. Five frontends (C, Pascal,
Modula-2, Occam, BASIC) feed one code generator. Preliminar tests have
shown that the Pascal compiler makes the smallest code. M2 makes the
biggest.

The Modula-2 compiler is fully compatible with Wirth (PIM-3.2) and has
some very useful extensions, especially for Minix. Coroutines, and such
are integral parts.

m2 is part of the ACK package which is also available via sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tack/

to be installed on Linux. I have no experience with this yet.

My Minix trials can be followed on my site:

http://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl/minix/index.html

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Met vriendelijke groeten,

Jan Verhoeven
http://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl